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Cutting HIV aid means undercutting US foreign and economic interests − Nigeria shows the human costs

A little over two decades ago, addressing Nigeria’s HIV crisis topped U.S. President George W. Bush’s priorities. Africa’s most populous nation had 3.5 million HIV cases, and the disease threatened to destabilize the region and ultimately compromise U.S. interests. These interests included securing access to Nigeria’s substantial oil reserves, maintaining…

The Conversation

South Africa’s Ramaphosa to visit Trump: Can they fix tricky relations?

The two countries have clashed over alleged persecution of white South Africans and Israel’s war on Gaza.

Al Jazeera

South Africa says Trump's aid cuts stripped more than 8,000 health workers from its HIV program

The Trump administration’s dismantling of USAID has put more than 8,000 health workers in South Africa’s national HIV program out of work

The Independent UK

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Nothing can ‘put right’ infected blood delay damage, minister says

More than 30,000 people in the UK were infected with viruses, including HIV and hepatitis C, after receiving contaminated blood.

Evening Standard

How Trump’s aid cuts are inflicting double the pain on LGBT+ people

IN FOCUS : Uganda has some of the harshest anti-gay laws in the world – with same-sex couples facing up to life imprisonment. Rachel Schraer speaks to Ugandans who have run out of HIV medication and finds out how already vulnerable communities are coping

The Independent UK

Viking DNA helps reveal when HIV-fighting gene mutation emerged: 9,000 years ago near the Black Sea

A study of more than 3,000 genomes has traced a gene mutation that confers HIV resistance to a person who lived near the Black Sea around 7000 B.C.

LiveScience

US funding cuts have crippled our HIV work – what’s being lost

The Trump administration’s cuts to funding for scientific research have left many scientists reeling and very worried. At the National Institutes of Health in the US, which has an annual budget of US$47 billion to support medical research both in the US and around the world, nearly 800 grants have…

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Trump health cuts create ‘real danger’ around disease outbreaks, workers warn

Key programs from child-support services to HIV treatment also gutted, leaving global populations vulnerable

The Guardian - US

Roll Up Your Sleeves: Victoria Announces Free Mpox Vaccines To Combat Outbreak

Queer men, sex workers and people living with HIV are among those eligible for free vaccines up until June 30.

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Infected blood victims will die before they get compensation, minister accepts

The inquiry is examining the ‘timeliness and adequacy of the Government’s response to compensation’.

Evening Standard

Inquiry hears of ‘anguish’ over compensation for infected blood victims

The inquiry is examining the ‘timeliness and adequacy of the Government’s response to compensation’.

Evening Standard

UNAIDS to slash workforce as funding by United States and other donors disappears

UNAIDS had previously warned that unless support to its HIV efforts are restored soon, more than six million people could die in the next four years.

Euronews

UNAIDS to slash workforce by more than half as funding by US and other big donors disappears

The United Nations agency that fights HIV says it plans to slash its workforce by more than half as a result of sweeping funding cuts from longtime donors in the United States, Asia and Europe

The Independent UK

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African researchers are working to cure HIV, but US aid cuts are in the way

Dozens of trials on HIV ground to a halt in February after US President Donald Trump abruptly pulled crucial funding.

The Conversation

Three scientists speak about what it’s like to have research funding cut by the Trump administration

The Trump administration’s cuts to funding for American universities and research have left many scientists reeling and very worried. At the National Institutes of Health, which has an annual budget of US$47 billion to support medical research both in the U.S. and around the world, nearly 800 grants have been…

The Independent UK

US funds supported Nepal's growing LGBTQ+ community. Now that money is gone

Many support centers for Nepal’s LGBTQ+ community have closed since the Trump administration began dismantling the U.S. Agency for International Development

The Guardian - UK

Lack of access to antibiotics is driving spread of superbugs, finds research

Focus on overuse contributes to antibiotics reaching less than 7% of people with drug-resistant infections in poorer countries, say researchers

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Medical Daily

Doctors Pushed HIV Meds On Patients in Exchange For Lavish Meals, Trips, and Cash: Prosecutors

A pharmaceutical company that paid doctors kickbacks to push their HIV/AIDS drugs has agreed to pay a fine of more than $200 million.

The Independent UK

Warning cuts to STI clinics will make target to end HIV in England by 2030 ‘impossible’

The call comes as the number of new cases in England has almost doubled since 2019

Evening Standard

Report warns London is 'a long way off' eliminating new HIV cases by 2030

Research finds that the decline in new diagnoses in London ‘appears to have stalled’, raising questions about mayor Sadiq Khan’s end-of-decade target

Salon

Tracking the Trump-Musk death toll

A researcher at Boston University is keeping tabs on deaths likely caused by dismantling U.S. foreign aid programs

The Independent UK

What is drug resistance and why is it a problem?

HIV drug resistance explained as experts sound alarm over long-term aid funding cuts

The Independent UK

Trump’s deadline to review US aid cuts has passed – so what happens now?

Programmes say they are facing growing uncertainty as review is extended

The Independent UK

WHO warns Trump cuts put millions of HIV patients at risk

Exclusive: World Health Organisation says shortage of most commonly used Aids drug caused by withdrawal of US foreign aid will sabotage effectiveness of treatment for millions in a ‘recipe for disaster’

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