US EditionTrump Aid Cuts Threaten Myanmar’s Youth
- On Thursday, March 27, 2025, CBS News reported that authorization for PEPFAR, the President’s Emergency Fund for AIDS Relief created under President George W. Bush to combat HIV and AIDS in the developing world, had lapsed on Tuesday.
- This lapse and potential funding cuts are occurring because President Donald Trump has considered ending PEPFAR, and his administration paused all foreign aid funding on January 20, ostensibly for a 90-day review.
- PEPFAR impacts the lives and health of 20 million people across 55 countries, with the U.S. Contributing nearly three-quarters of the total international HIV funding from the five nations that provide more than 90% of it, and between 2010 and 2023, countries receiving this aid saw an average 8% annual decrease in new HIV infections.
- Debra ten Brink, a co-lead researcher and senior research officer at Australia's Burnet Institute, stated, "Current cuts to PEPFAR and USAID-supported programs have already disrupted access to essential HIV services including for antiretroviral therapy and HIV prevention and testing."
- Researchers project that cuts to HIV funding could result in between 4.4 million and 10.8 million additional new HIV infections and between 770,000 and 2.9 million HIV-related deaths by 2030, potentially undoing decades of progress and requiring an additional 20 to 30 years of investment to end HIV/AIDS as a public health threat, especially in sub-Saharan Africa.
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The Business & Financial TimesDismantling USAID could boost African self-reliance
WASHINGTON, DC - Back in 2015, then-Kenyan President Uhuru Kenyatta warned the Pan-African Parliament about the dangers of development assistance. “The future of our continent cannot be left to the good graces of outside interests,” he said. “Foreign aid, which often comes with terms and conditions that preclude progress, is not an acceptable basis for prosperity and freedom. It is time to give it up.”
Malay Mail
AlKhaleej TodayWhile shuttering USAID, Trump insists will send help to Myanmar
WASHINGTON, March 29 — President Donald Trump’s administration told Congress on Friday it would cut nearly all remaining jobs at the US Agency for International Development and shut the agency, even as Trump promised that the US would provide assistance to Myanmar following a devastating earthquake. Humanitarian aid experts expressed alarm at the new cuts to an agency whose humanitarian aid has gained Washington influence and saved lives across …
Myanmar earthquake: Trump makes big announcement as military junta seeks help from ‘any country’
US President Donald Trump made a big announcement just hours after Myanmar and Thailand were struck by a devastating earthquake on March 28. Trump's remark followed Myanmar's ruling junta's request for help as fears grew of exponential damage to life and property in the war-ridden country. Watch the video to know what Trump said.
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