AIDS, HIV and Trump

Trump's foreign aid freeze halted a crucial program fighting HIV in Africa. Here's what's at stake
The President's Emergency Plan for AIDS Relief, or PEPFAR, is credited with saving more than 26 million lives and is critical to HIV programs in Africa.
Trump funding pause threatens program to prevent spread of HIV and AIDS in over 50 countries
President Trump's executive action ordering a 90-day pause on foreign development aid threatens the program called the President's Emergency Plan for AIDS Relief. The multimillion-dollar program helps prevent the spread of HIV and AIDS in more than 50 countries.
Trump's aid freeze could cause millions more AIDS deaths: UN agency
President Donald Trump's decision to suspend US overseas funding could result in millions more deaths from AIDS, the head of the UN's programme for the illness warned Sunday.
Trump’s aid freeze sends shock waves through Africa’s HIV programs
The freeze on U.S. foreign aid ordered by President Donald Trump has effectively halted one of the world's most successful responses to a disease.
UN agency warns Trump’s aid freeze could cause millions more AIDS deaths
Africa’s debt burden limits vital services, with new infections projected to rise by 8.7 million over five years.
Trump's Aid Cuts Stop South African HIV Vaccine Trials in Their Tracks
South African lab technician Nozipho Mlotshwa was waiting for the test results for a potential HIV vaccine, which has eluded scientists for decades, when the order came from USAID to stop work. The first round of vaccines she and her colleagues made in Johannesburg had produced an immune response in rabbits,
South African scientists were testing a promising HIV vaccine. Then came Trump’s aid cuts
South African lab technician Nozipho Mlotshwa was waiting for the test results for a potential HIV vaccine, which has eluded scientists for decades, when the order came from USAID to stop work.
Bill Gates says millions of lives at stake amid Musk, Trump's USAID freeze
Bill Gates pointed out that the President’s Emergency Plan for AIDS Relief (PEPFAR) has kept “over 20 million people alive ...
How Trump’s policies could reverse decades of progress in Latin America’s HIV response
If PEPFAR is not reauthorized for the next four years, and without other resources for the HIV response, there would be 6.3 ...
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The critical impact of the PEPFAR funding freeze for HIV across Latin America and the Caribbean
The U.S. decision in January to freeze all funding for U.S. foreign assistance, including for the U.S. President's Emergency ...
Bill Gates hopeful Trump will see ‘moral and strategic value’ in AIDS relief program
Billionaire philanthropist Bill Gates in an interview Wednesday said he hopes President Trump sees the value in preserving ...
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Research spotlight: Projecting the impact of funding cuts to the President’s Emergency Plan for AIDS Relief (PEPFAR)
Anne Neilan, MD, MPH, an associate professor of Pediatrics and physician investigator in the Medical Practice Evaluation Center at Massachusetts General Hospital, is corresponding author of a new ...
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US aid freeze may cause millions more AIDS deaths: UN
President Donald Trump's decision to suspend US overseas funding could result in millions more deaths from AIDS, the head of ...
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UN agency says Trump's aid freeze could cause millions more AIDS deaths
President Donald Trump's decision to suspend US foreign aid funding could lead to millions of additional deaths from AIDS, ...
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Foreign Aid Dealt Another Blow Under Rubio
During his first days in office, President Donald Trump signed an executive order suspending new U.S. foreign development assistance for three months, impacting programs such as the President’s ...