The article discusses the potential consequences of the Trump administration's decision to freeze foreign aid, including funds for the President's Emergency Plan for AIDS Relief (PEPFAR). The author, an HIV specialist, shares personal experiences from her work in South Africa, highlighting the transformative impact of PEPFAR in combating HIV/AIDS. She argues that suspending PEPFAR would not only reverse significant progress in HIV treatment and prevention but also jeopardize crucial global health collaborations and diplomatic efforts.
I remember the old days. As a university student in South Africa in 2005, I volunteered doing menial tasks at free clinics that served the largely impoverished nonwhite majority. Back then, South Africa’s HIV drug program was only beginning to roll out. The relief it would bring hadn’t yet come. In exam rooms, elementary schoolers panted from fungal pneumonia, terrified by their breathlessness.
These diseases had once been extraordinary rarities. When HIV hit, they were everywhere. I remember how I blew up gloves into balloons to distract the kids, so small and polite, their hair neatly braided. I remember how they died. The Trump administration froze all foreign aid on Jan. 20. This included funds for the U.S. President’s Emergency Plan for AIDS Relief, a bipartisan initiative launched by President George W. Bush. The program is estimated to have saved at least 25 million lives since its 2003 inception. In more than 50 countries, PEPFAR has distributed HIV drugs, improved public health capabilities, and strengthened the health workforce and infrastructure. It has done this at an annual cost of.
PEPFAR strengthens our security and economy. In a study of approximately 160 countries, the program’s presence was associated with a total per capita GDP growth ratethan expected over a 14-year period. The figure is impressive but unsurprising: The health benefits of HIV drugs are so remarkable that increasing by only 1 percentage point a country’s population on treatment has been linked to a bump of.
But supporting PEPFAR doesn’t require any of that. To back PEPFAR, all you need to care about is yourself and your loved ones. We are connected to the rest of the world. If PEPFAR ends, people overseas won’t be the only ones who
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