Foreign Aid Freeze Leaves Millions Without HIV Treatment

https://www.nytimes.com/2025/02/05/health/trump-usaid-pepfar.html

by perihelions • 1 year ago

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Two weeks into President Trump’s sweeping freeze on foreign aid, H.I.V. groups abroad have not received any funding, jeopardizing the health of more than 20 million people, including 500,000 children. Subsequent waivers from the State Department have clarified that the work can continue, but the funds and legal paperwork to do so are still missing.
In children who acquired H.I.V. at birth, the infection can progress very quickly to illness, with death occurring as early as eight to 12 weeks after birth — shorter than the 90-day pause on foreign aid.

So much pain and death will be caused by Trump, Musk, Rubio and their enablers in Congress and at large.

This is unconscionable and evil. Don't ever believe them when they claim to be "pro-life".

FigurativeVoid• 1 year ago

And they won't have to bear any consequences for killing them.

If it was a local government taking that funding instead of using it to treat HIV, we would call it a genocide. They are calling it cost cutting.

sebazzz• 1 year ago

Any abandoned aid-needing individual in a developing nation has the potential to become a refugee and thus am illegal immigrant.

benatkin• 1 year ago

Scott Alexander posted about this: https://www.astralcodexten.com/p/money-saved-by-canceling-pr...

smbullet• 1 year ago

This argument reads like whataboutism. If you believe it's immoral to force Americans to pay for foreign aid then I don't see how the argument "well that money could be spent worse" is valid.

throaway2501• 1 year ago

Well, what did dey evah do fuh us???

ChrisArchitect• 1 year ago

Usaid funding freeze disrupts global tuberculosis control efforts

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43038727

Foreign Aid Freeze Leaves Millions Without HIV Treatment

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