""Imposing excessive data demands will only deepen the crisis," Jessica Stern, the Co-Founder and Principal of The Alliance for Diplomacy and Justice told Jezebel. "It will harm people worldwide and damage U.S. credibility.""
""Collecting data to improve public health is a credible, long-standing practice-but that's not what the Trump Administration is doing," Stern says. "It is undermining access to HIV services, abortion, and other essential reproductive rights, then using those issues as a pretext to deny life-saving foreign assistance.""
""Many countries are feeling so squeezed for funding that they will take the deal," Elisha Dunn-Georgiou, president and CEO of Global Health Council, said, nodding to some unease as to what Trump even wants to do with the"
Agreements grant the U.S. sweeping authority to extract foreign health and reproductive data, including abortion-related information. The agreements enforce foreign compliance with the Helms Amendment, which blocks U.S. aid from paying for abortion care abroad and withholds funds even in cases of rape, incest, or life-threatening pregnancies. Data collection appears positioned to justify denial of life-saving foreign assistance by linking health issues to funding eligibility. Excessive data demands risk harming people worldwide and damaging U.S. credibility. Many low-resource countries may accept these terms due to funding pressure, increasing risks to HIV services and reproductive rights.
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