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Trump’s aid cuts in east Africa led to unwanted abortion and babies being born with HIV – report

Doctors, nurses, patients and other experts describe the loss of decades of progress in beating the virus in 100 days after Pepfar was disrupted

The Guardian - UK

Protesters demand release of HIV funds ‘illegally’ withheld by Trump

People take to streets against Trump administration plans to rescind funding for life-saving international programs

The Guardian - US

HIV is on the rise among older Africans, but care and research overlook this group – lessons from Kenya and South Africa

For decades, public health efforts across sub-Saharan Africa have focused on HIV prevention, testing and treatment campaigns on children, and women of reproductive age, overlooking the population at older ages.

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The Pepfar programme keeps millions with HIV alive – a new push seeks to save it from Trump’s aid cuts

The US Senate votes to keep money for the President’s Emergency Plan for Aids Relief from a package of more than $9 billion in cuts going through Congress

The Independent UK

US Senators Approve $9 Billion Of Elon Musk's Federal Cuts

The US Senate approved early Thursday a package of spending cuts proposed by President Donald Trump that would cancel more than $9 billion in funding for foreign aid programs and public broadcasting.

International Business Times

Trump’s $9 billion spending cuts could spare $400 million for HIV/AIDS relief

The move to save PEPFAR funding may prove useful in rallying GOP support from powerful lawmakers like Senate Appropriations chair Susan Collins, an outspoken critic of Trump’s proposed cuts.

Fortune

PEPFAR keeps millions of people with HIV alive and may be spared from Trump spending cuts

The program known as PEPFAR is one of the most effective and popular U.S. foreign aid projects in history, and the government says it has saved the lives of over 25 million people around the world with HIV

The Independent UK

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Donald Trump has a master plan as rebels threaten to torpedo his next scheme

Struggling to unite behind cuts.

We Got This Covered

Millions will die in coming years if US funding for HIV programmes is not replaced, UN warns

US cuts could lead to four million AIDS-related deaths by 2029, according to UN officials.

Euronews

UNAids chief ‘shaken and disgusted’ by US cuts that will mean millions more deaths

Winnie Byanyima tells the Guardian she considered resigning when Donald Trump cancelled Pepfar funding

The Guardian - UK

Rubio Hails End Of USAID As Bush, Obama Deplore Cost In Lives

The US foreign aid agency formally closed down Tuesday, with President Donald Trump's administration trumpeting the end of the "charity-based model" despite predictions that millions of lives will be lost.

International Business Times

When developing countries band together, lifesaving drugs become cheaper and easier to buy − with trade-offs

Procuring lifesaving drugs is a daunting challenge in many low- and middle-income countries. Essential treatments are often neither available nor affordable in these nations, even decades after the drugs entered the market.

The Conversation

Congress should be ashamed over helping Trump cut foreign aid, activists say

Campaigners say the US government has been withholding funds for orphans and vulnerable children unlawfully – before a vote in Congress has backed Trump’s move

The Independent UK

‘I will not support a cut in PEPFAR’: Susan Collins draws line in sand as Trump’s $9.3 billion cuts face Senate rebellion

The purse strings have guardians.

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The Independent UK

Millions of doses of ‘pandemic-ending’ HIV jab at risk over Trump’s aid cuts

INTERVIEW: The funding for 2 million people to receive the twice-yearly preventative treatment lenacapavir is ‘receding in the chaos’ of the US president’s decision, the doctor behind the trial of the drug tells Rachel Schraer

The Independent UK

Death Sentence: The real cost of Trump’s aid cuts on HIV

In his first hours as US president, Donald Trump signed an order freezing most foreign aid for 90 days — this included funding to PEPFAR, the global HIV programme credited with saving millions of lives.

The Independent UK

Trump blames Europe as deadly impact of US cuts on Aids pandemic grows

Trump lashes out at France and Germany amid growing evidence that HIV patients are being denied life-saving drugs. Bel Trew reports

The Guardian - US

Elon Musk says Doge didn’t cut HIV programs. But it threw a ‘miracle drug’ into chaos

Global health officials say USAID cuts upended their work, as billionaire claims he will fix any defunding ‘right now’

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The Independent UK

Republicans are telling the White House that DOGE cuts will not be permanent

Conservatives have faced furious opposition from their constituents during town hall meetings in their districts

Al Jazeera

African researchers are working to cure HIV, but US aid cuts are in the way

Dozens of trials on HIV ground to a halt in February after US President Donald Trump abruptly pulled crucial funding.

Salon

Tracking the Trump-Musk death toll

A researcher at Boston University is keeping tabs on deaths likely caused by dismantling U.S. foreign aid programs

The Independent UK

WHO warns Trump cuts put millions of HIV patients at risk

Exclusive: World Health Organisation says shortage of most commonly used Aids drug caused by withdrawal of US foreign aid will sabotage effectiveness of treatment for millions in a ‘recipe for disaster’

The Independent UK

Voices: I’m a doctor specialising in HIV – the world should be very afraid of cuts to Aids funding

COMMENT: Hospitals will see a surge of people with Aids-related conditions that we should no longer see in this age of effective treatment, warns Dr Rageshri Dhairyawan

LiveScience

Nearly 3 million extra deaths by 2030 could result from HIV funding cuts, study suggests

A modeling study looked at how anticipated cuts to international HIV funding would affect the rate of new cases and HIV-related deaths in low- and middle-income countries.

The Independent UK

‘I can’t protect my unborn baby from HIV’: The stark reality of Trump’s aid cuts

ON THE GROUND: From the pregnant woman who fears HIV will now be transmitted to her child, to the father of four lying in agony on a mattress with no access to drugs. In Uganda and Zimbabwe, chief international correspondent Bel Trew finds the US president’s brutal severing of aid…

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