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Vox: Killing PEPFAR means killing millions of people
Published March 7, 2025
A lot has happened in the last six weeks, to put it mildly, and it can be hard to see through the dust and tell what’s actually ongoing. The government threatened tariffs, backed off, then did the tariffs, and then started carving out tariff exceptions for connected-enough constituencies. Read the full article…
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ProPublica - The Trump Administration Said These Aid Programs Saved Lives. It Canceled Them Anyway.
Published February 28, 2025
The axing of some 10,000 programs has consigned untold numbers of children and refugees to death, officials say. Documents and interviews reveal that the State Department appears to have made the cuts without the careful review it described in court. | Read the full article at ProPublica.
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Salon: "A whole new level of cruelty": Health Experts Decry "Devastating" Cuts to HIV Treatment Programs
Published February 27, 2025
The Elizabeth Glaser Pediatric AIDS Foundation said the latest cuts will deprive 350,000 people of HIV treatment. Read the full article at Salon.
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Politico: USAID cuts expected to devastate global health
Published February 26, 2025
The Trump administration has decided that hundreds of programs aimed at helping people in the world’s poorest countries stay alive are no longer in the national interest. The sweeping cuts in foreign aid announced Wednesday will slash HIV treatment, prevention and research, health services to treat malaria, and care for…
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Health Policy Watch: US Terminates Thousands of Life-Saving Global Health Grants Including For HIV, TB and Malaria
Published February 26, 2025
The Trump administration has terminated the contracts of nearly 10,000 global health projects funded by the US Agency for International Development (USAID) or the US State Department – including projects to provide vital diagnosis and treatment for HIV, tuberculosis, and malaria, as well as humanitarian aid projects providing nutrition and…
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EGPAF Statement - Lifesaving Services Terminated for 10,000 Children and 10,000 Pregnant Women
Published February 26, 2025
Late yesterday, the Elizabeth Glaser Pediatric AIDS Foundation (EGPAF) received award termination notices for three of its primary USAID agreements, which had previously received approval to resume limited work under the PEPFAR waiver for lifesaving work from the Department of State. These agreements cover HIV programming in Lesotho, Eswatini, and Tanzania that serves pregnant women,…
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EGPAF Statement - Resuming Lifesaving Work
Published February 19, 2025
An Update from EGPAF The Elizabeth Glaser Pediatric AIDS Foundation (EGPAF) has resumed work in many of our country programs for our lifesaving activities that align with the Department of State’s waiver, including HIV testing, care and treatment; pediatric and adolescent care; prevention of mother-to-child transmission; and treatment of…
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New York Times: Emergency Food, TB Tests and H.I.V. Drugs: Vital Health Aid Remains Frozen Despite Court Ruling
Published February 19, 2025
Funds for vital health programs around the world remain frozen and their work has not been able to resume, despite a federal judge’s order that temporarily halted the Trump administration’s dismantling of the government’s main foreign aid agency. Full article at New York Times: Emergency Food, TB Tests…
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BBC: Fact-checking Elon Musk's claims in the Oval Office
Published February 11, 2025
Elon Musk has made a number of exaggerated or unevidenced claims during an Oval Office event alongside President Donald Trump. The billionaire, who was making his first major media appearance since beginning his role as the head of the Department of Government Efficiency (Doge), said his team was seeking to…