The United States Agency for International Development (USAID) has officially halted funding to HIV organisations, and South Africans are okay with that.
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allAfrica.com on MSNUS funding remains frozen for many life-saving servicesDespite waivers, court judgments and assurances from the embassy, USAID funding for projects that provide HIV medication has not resumed
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.
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.
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 U.N.'s Angeli Achrekar reports that many clinics have closed, despite exemptions in the policy. She fears mortality will surge.
That is because PEPFAR, the President's Emergency Plan For AIDS Relief, contributes about $400 million a year to programs in South Africa. Linda-Gail Bekker runs one of those programs. She is director of the Desmond Tutu HIV Centre in Cape Town ...
If it goes away, people are going to die." The US move included a 90-day suspension of all work by the President's Emergency Plan for AIDS Relief (PEPFAR), although his administration later issued ...
Trump stopped foreign aid which in the last financial year contributed about R7 billion to South Africa’s HIV/Aids programmes.
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