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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.
The Trump administration’s global aid freeze is threatening the lives of HIV-positive orphans at Nyumbani Children’s Home in Nairobi.
The head of the U.N. AIDS agency says the number of new HIV infections could jump more than six times by 2029 if U.S. withdraws support for AIDS program.
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From Bettina Bauer, Vice President, US HIV Treatment and Prevention, Gilead Sciences In 2022, there were up to 1.2 million people with HIV (PWH) and 37,981 new cases of HIV in the United States alone.1 While impressive advances have been made in HIV treatment and prevention, there remain significant disparities in the impact of HIV for underserved communities.
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Hydeia Broadbent, who was born with HIV and developed AIDS at 5, has died. She raised awareness about the virus and disease when she appeared with Magic Johnson on a Nickelodeon show in 1992.
President Trump’s restrictions on foreign aid and targeting of a key agency funding programs around the world may be offering an opening to China.
USAID staffers worldwide are scrambling for answers and starting to pack up households or pull their children from school.
While discussions are still ongoing over the conditions for federal assistance, Trump aide Ric Grenell said, the administration is looking closely at the California Coastal Commission.
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Allies are struggling to save part of their security funding from the 90-day freeze ordered by President Trump, who also paused federal grants and loans inside the U.S.
While African Americans continue to have the highest HIV rates in the United States overall, Latinos made up the largest share of new HIV diagnoses.