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Trump’s $9 billion spending cuts could spare $400 million for HIV/AIDS relief

The move to save PEPFAR funding may prove useful in rallying GOP support from powerful lawmakers like Senate Appropriations chair Susan Collins, an outspoken critic of Trump’s proposed cuts.

Fortune

PEPFAR keeps millions of people with HIV alive and may be spared from Trump spending cuts

The program known as PEPFAR is one of the most effective and popular U.S. foreign aid projects in history, and the government says it has saved the lives of over 25 million people around the world with HIV

The Independent UK

Donald Trump has a master plan as rebels threaten to torpedo his next scheme

Struggling to unite behind cuts.

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Millions will die in coming years if US funding for HIV programmes is not replaced, UN warns

US cuts could lead to four million AIDS-related deaths by 2029, according to UN officials.

Euronews

UNAids chief ‘shaken and disgusted’ by US cuts that will mean millions more deaths

Winnie Byanyima tells the Guardian she considered resigning when Donald Trump cancelled Pepfar funding

The Guardian - UK

Rubio Hails End Of USAID As Bush, Obama Deplore Cost In Lives

The US foreign aid agency formally closed down Tuesday, with President Donald Trump's administration trumpeting the end of the "charity-based model" despite predictions that millions of lives will be lost.

International Business Times

When developing countries band together, lifesaving drugs become cheaper and easier to buy − with trade-offs

Procuring lifesaving drugs is a daunting challenge in many low- and middle-income countries. Essential treatments are often neither available nor affordable in these nations, even decades after the drugs entered the market.

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Congress should be ashamed over helping Trump cut foreign aid, activists say

Campaigners say the US government has been withholding funds for orphans and vulnerable children unlawfully – before a vote in Congress has backed Trump’s move

The Independent UK

‘I will not support a cut in PEPFAR’: Susan Collins draws line in sand as Trump’s $9.3 billion cuts face Senate rebellion

The purse strings have guardians.

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Millions of doses of ‘pandemic-ending’ HIV jab at risk over Trump’s aid cuts

INTERVIEW: The funding for 2 million people to receive the twice-yearly preventative treatment lenacapavir is ‘receding in the chaos’ of the US president’s decision, the doctor behind the trial of the drug tells Rachel Schraer

The Independent UK

Death Sentence: The real cost of Trump’s aid cuts on HIV

In his first hours as US president, Donald Trump signed an order freezing most foreign aid for 90 days — this included funding to PEPFAR, the global HIV programme credited with saving millions of lives.

The Independent UK

Trump blames Europe as deadly impact of US cuts on Aids pandemic grows

Trump lashes out at France and Germany amid growing evidence that HIV patients are being denied life-saving drugs. Bel Trew reports

The Independent UK

Elon Musk says Doge didn’t cut HIV programs. But it threw a ‘miracle drug’ into chaos

Global health officials say USAID cuts upended their work, as billionaire claims he will fix any defunding ‘right now’

The Guardian - US

Republicans are telling the White House that DOGE cuts will not be permanent

Conservatives have faced furious opposition from their constituents during town hall meetings in their districts

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African researchers are working to cure HIV, but US aid cuts are in the way

Dozens of trials on HIV ground to a halt in February after US President Donald Trump abruptly pulled crucial funding.

Salon

Tracking the Trump-Musk death toll

A researcher at Boston University is keeping tabs on deaths likely caused by dismantling U.S. foreign aid programs

The Independent UK

WHO warns Trump cuts put millions of HIV patients at risk

Exclusive: World Health Organisation says shortage of most commonly used Aids drug caused by withdrawal of US foreign aid will sabotage effectiveness of treatment for millions in a ‘recipe for disaster’

The Independent UK

Voices: I’m a doctor specialising in HIV – the world should be very afraid of cuts to Aids funding

COMMENT: Hospitals will see a surge of people with Aids-related conditions that we should no longer see in this age of effective treatment, warns Dr Rageshri Dhairyawan

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Nearly 3 million extra deaths by 2030 could result from HIV funding cuts, study suggests

A modeling study looked at how anticipated cuts to international HIV funding would affect the rate of new cases and HIV-related deaths in low- and middle-income countries.

The Independent UK

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

ON THE GROUND: 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…

The Independent UK

The Aids crisis was set to end by 2030 – now Trump’s cuts will mean 4 million more deaths

IN FOCUS: HIV infections and deaths from Aids are set to skyrocket in the next five years if US-funded programmes are not reinstated, write Rachel Schraer, Alicja Hagopian, Bel Trew and Rebecca Thomas

The Conversation

Foreign aid cuts could mean 10 million more HIV infections by 2030 – and almost 3 million extra deaths

In January, the Trump administration ordered a broad pause on all US funding for foreign aid.

LiveScience

HIV-funding cuts could lead to nearly 3 million extra deaths by 2030, study suggests

A modeling study looked at how anticipated cuts to international HIV funding would affect the rate of new cases and HIV-related deaths in low- and middle-income countries.

Radio France Internationale

AIDS pandemic risks 'resurging globally' amid US funding halt: UN

The world risks returning to the worst days of the global AIDS pandemic following the sudden halt to US foreign aid funding, the UN's top AIDS official said Monday, warning millions would die.

Fortune

USAID canceled contracts worth $32.7m bound for HIV charity treating 350,000 patients—now the lives of 10,000 children are on the line

In an exclusive interview, Trish Karlin of the Elizabeth Glaser Pediatric AIDS Foundation discusses the impact of $32.7m worth of contracts being terminated by USAID.

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