“Pepfar has saved more than 26 million lives and prevented roughly 1,000 babies a day from being born with the HIV virus”
Superb piece on how cuts to USAID will affect the world’s poorest, focusing on HIV
https://on.ft.com/3QX1HhP
Superb piece on how cuts to USAID will affect the world’s poorest, focusing on HIV
https://on.ft.com/3QX1HhP
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The problem is that in the interim a lot of damage will be done.
The faster this transition occurs the better. It certainly will not be smooth.
To the best of my knowledge (and I welcome corrections), nothing has worked
Except medication which reduces the count, and limits transmission
The dangers now are a resurgence of deaths & the spread of HIV
Otherwise, I worry we will return to 1990s levels of infections
Nothing has really changed, except medication.,
Where I lived in Kitwe, 20% had HIV.
DHS data (before it was cut) provided no evidence of behavioural change.
Maybe I’m missing something, and I welcome corrections, but I really worry we will see a resurgence.
Unlikely.
In Britain, where real wages are stagnant and public services have worsened,
66% support cuts to overseas aid
https://on.ft.com/3CYjMbT
Over in Southern Africa, fiscal space to fill the gap is seriously weak.
Zambia has just endured the combination of a sovereign debt crisis & crop failure.