The freeze on U.S. foreign aid ordered by President Donald Trump has effectively halted one of the world's most successful responses to a disease.
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US HIV fund halt may cost South Africa 500,000 lives over 10 years: foundation A halt in US funds to South Africa's HIV/AIDS programmes could lead to more than 500,000 deaths over 10 years, the head of the Desmond Tutu HIV Foundation said Thursday.
The freeze on U.S. foreign aid ordered by President Donald Trump has effectively halted one of the world's most successful responses to a disease. For two decades, the American people
LONDON >> Crucial work furthering LGBTQ+ rights and preventing HIV in the Pacific Islands has been disrupted by U.S. President Donald Trump’s freeze of foreign aid and may not recover, advocates in the region have said.
President Donald Trump's cuts to USAID could mean as many as 500,000 people die over the next 10 years, one expert predicted. Al Jazeera cited health experts and aid organizations saying that ending many of the USAID programs that help those with HIV/AIDS "in many African countries could lead to hundreds of thousands of deaths on the continent.
Correction: An earlier version of this story said incorrectly that President Donald Trump signed an executive order pausing foreign aid the day after he took office. He signed it the day he took office.