Trump aid freeze disrupts global HIV/AIDS fight
A legacy bipartisan initiative to combat HIV and AIDS in Africa is collateral damage from President Donald Trump’s directive to halt all U.S. foreign assistance, despite efforts to exempt humanitarian assistance and lifesaving medication from being caught up in the three-month funding freeze.
Trump’s Foreign Aid Freeze Causes Fear of H.I.V. Resurgence in Africa
Patients and health care advocates said the abrupt decision to halt U.S. funding for a lifesaving H.I.V. program led to widespread confusion. The backtracking didn’t help.
Will Trump End the Most Successful Foreign-Aid Program in US History?
The President’s Emergency Program for AIDS Relief is in danger of shuttering. The decision could kill hundreds of thousands of people and kickstart an epidemic.
RFK Jr. Voices Support for PEPFAR Amid Trump Foreign Aid Funding Freeze
After several days of worry that the global AIDS program might come to abrupt end, Secretary of State Marco Rubio issued a humanitarian waiver that appears to have restored funding.
Anti-HIV program in crisis as Trump aid pause sows confusion
The State Department issued a waiver for lifesaving aid, but HIV clinics remain shut and uncertainty lingers over the future of PEPFAR, which saved 25 million lives.
State Department says Trump froze foreign aid to 'root out waste'
President defends foreign aid suspension after Secretary of State Marco Rubio's emergency exemption for lifesaving programs
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PEPFAR, USAID Hit Hard by Trump Administration Orders
USAID is in charge of ordering the drugs used by the President's Emergency Plan for AIDS Relief (PEPFAR) in its programs that ...
Trump's Executive Order Froze Distribution of Life-Saving HIV Drugs, But Only Briefly
A legally contested executive order on foreign aid did, at least initially, halt the distribution of life-saving HIV drugs.
Deborah Birx, Who Oversaw PEPFAR, Is Not Surprised at Its Precarious State
On Tuesday evening, less than a week later, Secretary of State Marco Rubio granted PEPFAR a waiver to provide some services, ...
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PEPFAR withdrawal threatens to cripple SA's NGOs
It comes as US President Donald Trump announced that his government will be halting all President's Emergency Plan for AIDS ...
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PEPFAR, other ‘life-saving humanitarian’ programs can operate under State Department waiver
Secretary of State Marco Rubio on Tuesday issued a waiver that allows the President’s Emergency Plan for AIDS Relief and ...
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Trump's 'stop-work' order for PEPFAR cuts off anti-HIV drugs for patients
As a result of the new administration's actions, health centers funded by PEPFAR, the U.S. President's Emergency Plan for ...
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Motsoaledi says more than 15,000 SA health workers will be affected by US move to halt HIV/AIDS funding
JOHANNESBURG - More than 15,000 health workers in the country will be affected by the Trump administration’s decision to ...
Trump administration waives halt on distribution of HIV medications via PEPFAR
The Trump administration has made some concessions to the halt placed on distributions of global HIV treatments via the U.S.
State Department Permits Distribution of H.I.V. Medications to Resume — for Now
Experts fear a resurgence of infections in low-income countries if the ban were to continue. The waiver remains in place, ...