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South Africa faces HIV crisis as Trump’s aid freeze halts treatment and research

Members of the Treatment Action Campaign in Daveyton, south of Johannesburg. REUTERS/Siphiwe Sibeko

South Africa has more people living with HIV than any other country, and US President Donald Trump’s aid freeze has hit patients hard – as well as researchers, who were close to a breakthrough in the development of a vaccine for the disease.

In January, United States President Donald Trump ordered a 90-day pause in all foreign development aid, pending assessment of its consistency with his "America First" foreign policy, and dismantled the United States Agency for International Development (USAID).

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