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Why cuts to global AIDS relief threaten U.S. health, economic growth, and physical securityMany Americans are unaware that health aid to other countries directly benefits our own health, economic growth, and physical security.
Shuttered clinics and health workers laid off around the world reflect the widespread, negative toll the United States funding freeze is taking on the global AIDS response, according to a new situation report released on Wednesday by the UN agency charged with responding to the disease.
Elon Musk claims he mistakenly fired Ebola prevention workers, then quickly fixed the error. But Ebola programs are still in tatters, along with other livesaving efforts like AIDS treatments for children.
We can now prevent HIV transmissions and deaths — progress impossible without investments from the U.S. government
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The Trump administration has terminated funding for HIV, malaria and maternal health programs it had labeled lifesaving.
If PEPFAR is not reauthorized for the next four years, and without other resources for the HIV response, there would be 6.3 million AIDS-related deaths in the near future, a 400% increase, Christine Stegling, the deputy executive director of the United Nations agency tasked with tackling HIV and AIDS, UNAIDS.
The United States Agency for International Development (USAID) has officially halted funding to HIV organisations, and South Africans are okay with that.
Organisations who receive funds through USAID were slapped with letters from the US State Department on Wednesday saying funding has been cancelled.
Cuts to HIV/AIDS funding could threaten the 40 years of work that has gone into ending the AIDS epidemic — potentially putting the lives of millions of people at risk.
But US aid, mostly for HIV in South Africa, and for food and health care in other African countries, has been very beneficial for these countries, as well as the US and the world. The withdrawal of this aid by President Donald Trump will damage not only Africa but the United States too.
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