NAIROBI, Feb 7 — President Donald Trump’s decision to freeze foreign assistance has sent aid staff in Africa into “panic mode”, with even HIV experimental treatment...
People protest outside of the headquarters for United States Agency for International Development , before Congressional Democrats hold news conference in Washington, DC, on February 3, 2025. — AFP picas a first-time user . Exclusively for Malay Mail readers: Use codeNAIROBI, Feb 7 — President Donald Trump ’s decision to freeze foreign assistance has sent aid staff in Africa into “panic mode”, with even HIV experimental treatment programmes stopped dead in their tracks.
That has included a 90-day suspension of all work by the President’s Emergency Plan for AIDS Relief , which alone supports more than 20 million HIV patients and 270,000 health workers, according to an analysis from the Foundation for AIDS Research . He told AFP research projects had abruptly stopped, even for patients midway through experimental treatment programmes.“The people who were the study candidates are going to have adverse health results because the study has just stopped all of a sudden,” Aghan told AFP.“A lot of people are going to die because of lack of knowledge,” he said. “One of the key approaches to bringing down HIV numbers in Africa is through provision of information.
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