Trump, HIV and AIDS

Trump funding pause threatens program to prevent spread of HIV and AIDS in over 50 countries
President Trump's executive action ordering a 90-day pause on foreign development aid threatens the program called the President's Emergency Plan for AIDS Relief. The multimillion-dollar program helps prevent the spread of HIV and AIDS in more than 50 countries.
Trump’s aid freeze sends shock waves through Africa’s HIV programs
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.
What Trump's freeze in federal funding means for the global fight against AIDS
Just a few weeks into his second term, President Trump froze funding for programs that play a big role in Global aid. One of those programs is the President's Emergency Plan for AIDS or PEPFAR.
Kenya's options in funding HIV treatment, other programmes after Donald Trump's funding freeze
Following Donald Trump’s funding freeze on HIV treatment and other health programmes, Kenya faces critical decisions in sustaining these initiatives.
Trump's aid freeze could cause millions more AIDS deaths: UN agency
President Donald Trump's decision to suspend US overseas funding could result in millions more deaths from AIDS, the head of the UN's programme for the illness warned Sunday.
Trump's foreign aid freeze halted a crucial program fighting HIV in Africa. Here's what's at stake
As a young adult in Zimbabwe, Makumene watched loved ones succumb to a diagnosis of HIV that was viewed back then as a death sentence. But the 53-year-old didn’t have to suffer the same fate when she tested positive in 2016.
Funds for fight against HIV/AIDS paused in Trump aid freeze
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.
Bill Gates says millions of lives at stake amid Musk, Trump's USAID freeze
Bill Gates pointed out that the President’s Emergency Plan for AIDS Relief (PEPFAR) has kept “over 20 million people alive ...
Map Shows Huge Drops in HIV Funding as Global Infections Surge Predicted
In Africa, a U.S. funding loss will be critical to HIV programs in countries like Uganda, Mozambique and Tanzania.
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The critical impact of the PEPFAR funding freeze for HIV across Latin America and the Caribbean
The U.S. decision in January to freeze all funding for U.S. foreign assistance, including for the U.S. President's Emergency ...
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Research spotlight: Projecting the impact of funding cuts to the President’s Emergency Plan for AIDS Relief (PEPFAR)
Anne Neilan, MD, MPH, an associate professor of Pediatrics and physician investigator in the Medical Practice Evaluation Center at Massachusetts General Hospital, is corresponding author of a new ...
How Trump’s policies could reverse decades of progress in Latin America’s HIV response
If PEPFAR is not reauthorized for the next four years, and without other resources for the HIV response, there would be 6.3 ...
U.S. aid freeze puts HIV-positive orphans in Kenya and their lifesaving drugs at risk
The Trump administration's global aid freeze is threatening the lives of HIV-positive orphans at Nyumbani Children’s Home in Nairobi.
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HIV Infections Could Rise 6 Times by 2029
New infections of HIV could rise 6 times by 2029 if the Trump Administration drops its financial support for measures to fight the disease.
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No back-up plan yet for potential loss of health care aid from US, says Treasury
Trump stopped foreign aid which in the last financial year contributed about R7 billion to South Africa’s HIV/Aids programmes ...