This development is the consequence of the Trump administration action on Friday ordering a stop-work for all global health funding, including PEPFAR (U.S. President’s Emergency Plan for AIDS Relief).
That action had an immediate impact.
Clinics have “stopped distributing medications and PEPFAR central information systems were shut down,” Atul Gawande, assistant administrator for global health at USAID under the Biden administration, told NPR in an email.
At least 220,000 patients around the world visit the network of PEPFAR-supported clinics daily, according to a fact sheet from amfAR (Foundation for AIDS Research), a premiere advocacy organization for people with HIV and AIDS.
Some 20 million people around the world rely on these programs for medications.
Many patients take home a three- to six-month supply of medications. The meds keep the virus at bay for those who are HIV-positive and protect HIV-negative people from infection. Those who were able to receive medicine in early December will run out in early February, Deborah Birx, a senior fellow at the Bush Institute and former Global AIDS coordinator, told NPR.
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This will kill nearly 20 million people in the years to come who depend on this program for life saving medicine.
20 million people.
That’s the population of Florida condemned to death through the stroke of a pen.
This is a monstrous, palpably evil act that undoes one of the few good things the modern Republican party has done.
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This development is the consequence of the Trump administration action on Friday ordering a stop-work for all global health funding, including PEPFAR (U.S. President’s Emergency Plan for AIDS Relief).
That action had an immediate impact.
Clinics have “stopped distributing medications and PEPFAR central information systems were shut down,” Atul Gawande, assistant administrator for global health at USAID under the Biden administration, told NPR in an email.
At least 220,000 patients around the world visit the network of PEPFAR-supported clinics daily, according to a fact sheet from amfAR (Foundation for AIDS Research), a premiere advocacy organization for people with HIV and AIDS.
Some 20 million people around the world rely on these programs for medications.
Many patients take home a three- to six-month supply of medications. The meds keep the virus at bay for those who are HIV-positive and protect HIV-negative people from infection. Those who were able to receive medicine in early December will run out in early February, Deborah Birx, a senior fellow at the Bush Institute and former Global AIDS coordinator, told NPR.
This will kill nearly 20 million people in the years to come who depend on this program for life saving medicine.
20 million people.
That’s the population of Florida condemned to death through the stroke of a pen.
This is a monstrous, palpably evil act that undoes one of the few good things the modern Republican party has done.
Trump and his minions are evil fucking people.
[Relevant](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1lffg88WDRg)
Rubio just gave PEPFAR a waiver, so it can resume operating. Evil that they cut it off in the first place, but good news for now nonetheless