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The Guardian - US
The Guardian - US
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Ed Pilkington

Trump administration ends funding for UN program fighting HIV/Aids

a person holding a testing tube
A lab technician checks an HIV test at government-run Community (Puskesmas) Senen in Jakarta, Indonesia on 30 November 2017. Photograph: Anadolu/Getty Images

The Trump administration has terminated its funding of the joint United Nations program on HIV/Aids, known as UNAids, delivering another devastating blow to the global fight against the disease.

The notice that US funding of UNAids is being cut off is the latest move by the administration to end American involvement in life-saving health and anti-poverty programs around the world. It was issued by Peter Marocco, a Trump loyalist who is spearheading the evisceration of the US overseas aid program through USAid.

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