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Fam­i­ly Plan­ning As­so­ci­a­tion pres­i­dent, Prof Rose-Marie Belle An­toine, says the or­gan­i­sa­tion may have to cur­tail its ser­vice used by Venezue­lan mi­grants, in­clud­ing sur­vivors of sex­u­al as­sault, over cuts in in­ter­na­tion­al fund­ing.

Speak­ing to re­porters af­ter the FPATT opened the doors to its brand-new fa­cil­i­ty on Bertrand Street, San Fer­nan­do, to ex­pand ac­cess to low-cost health­care, An­toine re­vealed that the Unit­ed Na­tions High Com­mis­sion­er for Refugees (UN­HCR) no longer funds med­ical treat­ment for mi­grants at FPATT clin­ics.

She said ad­di­tion­al fund­ing from US­AID and FPATT’s par­ent body, the In­ter­na­tion­al Planned Par­ent­hood Fed­er­a­tion, has al­so de­clined, leav­ing gaps in ser­vice de­liv­ery, es­pe­cial­ly in the area of sex­u­al and re­pro­duc­tive health.