A U.S. humanitarian waiver will allow people in several countries to continue accessing life-saving HIV treatments, the UNAIDS said on Wednesday, after President Donald Trump's freeze on foreign aid threatened such supplies.
Spread This NewsBy James Muonwa THE United States Agency for International Development (USAID) has ordered all recipients of its funds to cease operations forthwith in Zimbabwe. The latest development follows newly-elected U.
The President's Emergency Plan for AIDS Relief, or PEPFAR, provides billions in funding to organizations to combat HIV.
The World Health Organization (WHO) has warned that the U.S. government's immediate halt on HIV program funding could lead to
What this means for Uganda is that all US government-funded projects stop activities immediately for 90 days starting January 24 and that several Ugandans who are paid through US government-funded projects, especially in health and agriculture, will remain idle during the three months the review is ongoing.
A move by the Trump administration to freeze funding for PEPFAR, the widely heralded international HIV/AIDS program, is putting countless lives at immediate risk, experts say.