by Simone Salemme
The latest EAN-AFAN TV session probed Africa’s brain-health crisis after January’s US order that froze USAID and PEPFAR, leaving 10,000 health workers idle and halting HIV and TB services.
Speakers warned that countries like Mozambique remain highly dependent, while others, such as South Africa, show a path to greater self-reliance. Politicians may applaud the funding rethink, but patients feel the immediate pain. Experts urged G20-level advocacy, trans-societal alliances and diversified funding to protect both infectious-disease gains and rising NCD priorities such as stroke and epilepsy.
Watch the session below, or on our Vimeo channel, here: AFAN: The impact of the recent abrupt cessation of USAID, PEPFAR and other international development aid programmes on brain health in Africa
