my guest is the outgoing director—general, tewedros melesse, andi director—general, tewedros melesse,it is right that they should forfeit government funding. tewed ros tewedros melesse, welcome to hardtalk thank you. what is the loss ofa hardtalk thank you. what is the loss of a few —— us funding means you? one thing is that the us has been the greatest contributor to developmental assistance. today, donald trump is cutting down by 17 oi’ donald trump is cutting down by 17 or 18% of the funding. when it comes to sexual productive health and rights, there is a link specific. that is that it is that you cannot ta ke that is that it is that you cannot take our money and with your own money or somebody else‘s money, you cannot conduct abortion. but what does it mean in practice? is there anything that you are doing now that you won't be a will to do as a result of the loss of us funding? i think the figures are, your annual budget is about $175 billion, —— million. and the american funding is about $35 million. in any of the previous administration, we have not used us funding to talk abo

tewedros melesse, welcome to hardtalk. thank you, zeinab. the loss of us funding mean to you? well you know, i take it from two parts. one is that the us has been the greatest contributor to developmental assistance. now, today, the trump is cutting by 17% to 18% all development assistance. and when it comes to sexual productive health and rights, the cut is specific, which is saying that you cannot take our money and with your own money or somebody else money, you cannot conduct abortion. but what does it mean in practice? what is it — is there anything that you are doing now that you won't be able to do as a result of the loss of us funding? and i think the figures are — your annual budget is about $175 million and the us funding amounts to about $35 million a year. what the issue is, we have never used — in the the previous administrations, we have not used us funding to talk about abortion, or perform abortions. never. because that was a caluse of the us funding. what this administration is telling us, even if it is not with our money, i