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The Independent UK
The Independent UK
National
Evelyne Musambi,Farnoush Amiri,Cara Anna and Ellen Knickmeyer

Republicans' opposition to abortion threatens a global HIV program that has saved 25 million lives

Copyright 2023 The Associated Press. All rights reserved.

The graves at the edge of the orphanage tell a story of despair. The rough planks in the cracked earth are painted with the names of children, most of them dead in the 1990s. That was before the HIV drugs arrived.

Today, the orphanage in Kenya’s capital is a happier, more hopeful place for children with HIV. But a political fight taking place in the United States is threatening the program that helps to keep them and millions of others around the world alive.

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