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Foreign Aid Freeze Leaves Millions Without HIV Treatment
- WorkerBee28474 2y agohttps://archive.is/owY6t https://archive.is/owY6t
- dashundchen 2y ago> Two weeks into President Trump’s sweeping freeze on foreign aid, H.I.V. groups abroad have not received any funding, jeopardizing the health of more than 20 million people, including 500,000 children. Subsequent waivers from the State Department have clarified that the work can continue, but the funds and legal paperwork to do so are still missing. > In children who acquired H.I.V. at birth, the infection can progress very quickly to illness, with death occurring as early as eight to 12 weeks after birth — shorter than the 90-day pause on foreign aid. So much pain and death will be caused by Trump, Musk, Rubio and their enablers in Congress and at large. This is unconscionable and evil. Don't ever believe them when they claim to be "pro-life".
- FigurativeVoid 2y agoAnd they won't have to bear any consequences for killing them. If it was a local government taking that funding instead of using it to treat HIV, we would call it a genocide. They are calling it cost cutting.
- sebazzz 2y agoAny abandoned aid-needing individual in a developing nation has the potential to become a refugee and thus am illegal immigrant.
- benatkin 2y agoScott Alexander posted about this: https://www.astralcodexten.com/p/money-saved-by-canceling-programs https://www.astralcodexten.com/p/money-saved-by-canceling-pr...
- smbullet 2y agoThis argument reads like whataboutism. If you believe it's immoral to force Americans to pay for foreign aid then I don't see how the argument "well that money could be spent worse" is valid.
- throaway2501 2y agoWell, what did dey evah do fuh us???
- ChrisArchitect 2y agoRelated Usaid funding freeze disrupts global tuberculosis control efforts https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43038727 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43038727