The U.S. Agency for International Development (USAID), in consultation with the U.S. Department of State, submits this report pursuant to section 7019(e) of the Department of State, Foreign Operations, and Related Programs Appropriations Act, 2024 (Div. F, P.L. 118-47) and Senate Report 118-71, which reads as follows:
The USAID Administrator shall support efforts to strengthen surgical health capacity to address issues such as cleft lip and cleft palate, club foot, cataracts, hernias, fistulas, and untreated traumatic injuries in underserved areas in developing countries, including training local surgical teams to provide safe, sustainable, and timely surgical care, and assisting ministries of health to develop and implement national surgical, obstetric, trauma, and anesthesia plans. Not later than 90 days after the date of enactment of the act, the USAID Administrator shall submit a report to the Committees on Appropriations on the uses of funds for these purposes in fiscal year 2023 and planned uses of funds in fiscal year 2024, including to support private sector partnerships.
USAID supports several activities related to neglected surgical conditions across multiple bureaus. This report describes efforts by the American Schools and Hospitals Abroad (ASHA) program and the Bureau for Global Health (GH) to strengthen capacities and environments for safe surgery and to improve service quality for neglected surgical conditions.
