At the outset of the United States' freeze on billions of dollars in foreign aid, Brooke Nichols thought President Donald Trump would never cut funding to the President's Emergency Plan for AIDS Relief, a $6.5 billion program that supplies most of the HIV treatment drugs in low-income countries across the world. PEPFAR saves too many lives, the global health expert recalled thinking, he couldn't possibly touch it.
But the Trump administration soon did. Dread then set in.
