State Department Cancels Millions in Contraceptive Aid to Underdeveloped Countries
According to the Daily Wire, the State Department is being ordered by Secretary Rubio to destroy or discontinue $13 million worth of contraceptive aid to underdeveloped countries from the USAID under the previous Biden Administration. The outlet was told by its source that this canceled aid will save the US “nearly $31 million.”
However, The Washington Post reports the aid amounts to $12 million. Moreover, some of these items had been purchased by certain countries that may not receive them.
The aid was specifically sent out “for developing countries under programs that have since been discontinued will probably be destroyed unless officials sell or otherwise off-load them.” About 18 countries were intended to receive this aid.
The contraceptive items specifically “included over 26 million condoms, several million packets of oral birth control, hundreds of thousands of implantable contraceptive devices, nearly 2 million doses of injectable contraceptives, and over 50,000 vials of a drug that helps prevent a person from contracting HIV,” according to the Washington Post.
The Daily Wire reports that the contraceptives were “distributed abroad through the U.S. Agency for International Development.” A Belgian distribution center called Belgium RDC, is holding “a total of $9,734,251 in contraceptive commodities,” received from the USAID. More of these supplies are sitting at a center in the United Arab Emirates.
If the $9.7 million worth of items were destroyed, the cost would amount to $167,000, according to The Washington Post.
