
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).