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The Independent UK
The Independent UK
Rachel Schraer

Trump’s US aid cuts ‘help fuel rising anti-LGBT+ violence in Africa’

Donald Trump’s aid cuts have helped fuel rising violence against trans people, as well as denials of health care and access to justice, research by Physicians for Human Rights (PHR) has found.

One trans woman living with HIV in Tanzania said a hospital worker had told her: “Trump has made changes; because of that, what’s left for you is death, so you should repent.”

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