Zambians living with HIV struggle to find medication following U.S. foreign aid cuts

Zambians living with HIV struggle to find medication following U.S. foreign aid cuts

The Trump administration maintains that HIV meds have survived foreign aid cuts. In Zambia, as in other countries, people are struggling to find pills and risk getting sick without medication.

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

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 – and abrupt halt in medication – is already tearing lives apart

The cost will be measured in suffering, instability and lost prospects, writes Annika Sandlund, Nordic director of the UN refugee agency UNHCR.

All over Europe, budgets are reoriented towards defence.