When U.S. foreign aid changed, AIDS workers in Africa felt it

When U.S. foreign aid changed, AIDS workers in Africa felt it

This essay first appeared in the Up First newsletter. Sign up here.It can be hard to remember what the HIV/AIDS epidemic in Africa looked like decades ago: Hospitals across the continent were overwhelmed with young men and women, dying excruciating deaths.South Africa was at the center of the epidemic. Activist Lucky Mazibuko remembers, vividly.He told me that at the time, the country “was filled with the stench of death.”It seemed, he went on t…

US Aid Cuts Are Reversing Decades of HIV Progress in Africa — "The Stench of Death Is Returning"

The Trump administration’s dismantling of PEPFAR and USAID global health programmes has disrupted HIV treatment and prevention services across South Africa, Mozambique, and across sub-Saharan Africa — with health workers documenting clinic closures, interrupted treatment, and the beginning of a reversal of gains that took decades and 26 million lives’ worth of effort to build. […] The post US Aid Cuts Are Reversing Decades of HIV Progress in Afr…

Will aid cuts endanger HIV prevention in Africa?

Aid cuts and HIV prevention in South Africa and Mozambique U.S. foreign assistance changes tied to the Trump administration’s approach to the PEPFAR program are already affecting HIV prevention efforts in parts of Africa, according to health care providers cited in the story. In South Africa and…