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The U.S. said it would burn $9.7 million of birth control. Its fate is still unclear
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TPR: The Public's Radio
A view of a warehouse of Kuehne+Nagel in Geel, Belgium, which houses U.S.-funded contraceptives worth nearly $10 million.
“There is $10 million worth of product that has already been paid for that could just be moved out to countries,” says MSI’s Shaw.
Humanitarian groups say that’s already causing shortages in many sub-Saharan African countries, which the destruction of the $9.7 million stockpile would severely exacerbate.
The group PAI has said there is an estimated $40 million worth of contraceptives held up at various points in the global supply chain.
One example, according to RHSC, is a stockpile worth $1.5 million being held in Dubai.
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