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africa: US GROUPS in bush appeal for unfpa funds

2002-06-27, Issue 70

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A group of 25 population, women's rights, medical, religious and health groups sent a letter last week to US President George Bush asking him to release life-saving funds for the United Nations Population Fund (UNFPA). The group says women and their children are suffering because the funds have not been released.

US GROUPS APPEAL TO PRESIDENT BUSH TO RELEASE FUNDS FOR UNFPA
The following letter was sent on Monday to President George W. Bush on behalf of a group of 25 population, women's rights, medical, religious and health groups:

Dear President Bush:

We urge you to release the full Fiscal Year 2002 appropriation of $34 million for the United Nations Population Fund (UNFPA). A strong bipartisan agreement was reached in Congress - and signed into law by you - to provide these life-saving funds to UNFPA. Women and their children are suffering from your withholding of these funds.
The Fund is the lead global agency providing voluntary family planning, pregnancy and delivery care, and works to prevent the spread of sexually transmitted diseases including HIV AIDS for some of the world's poorest and most vulnerable people. It is one of the global leaders in efforts to eradicate obstetric fistula, a devastating injury that is virtually non-existent in developed countries, and to eliminate the practice of female genital mutilation that threatens more than two million young girls in Africa every year.
UNFPA programs are feeling the effects of the $34 million funding freeze by the United States, causing cuts in personnel and programs. For example, an urgently needed HIV prevention program for war-effected people in Liberia and Sierra Leone is facing a cut of $400,000. If the funds are not released, the shortfall could lead to as many as two million unwanted pregnancies, 800,000 induced abortions, 4700 maternal deaths and 77,000 infant and child deaths.
UNFPA's program in China is one of the most monitored and reviewed projects in the world, and none have found evidence of support of coercive abortion or involuntary sterilization. If they had, we all could not support UNFPA.
Again, we urge you to release the agreed-to $34 million to UNFPA and let those dollars get to use protecting families and saving lives.

SOURCE: US Newswire, 25 June 2002

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