Promise of Victory Over H.I.V. Fades as U.S. Withdraws Support
A new drug that gives almost complete protection against the virus was to be administered across Africa this year. Now, much of the funding for that effort is gone.
A new drug that gives almost complete protection against the virus was to be administered across Africa this year. Now, much of the funding for that effort is gone.
The drug could change the course of the AIDS epidemic. But the Trump administration has gutted the programs that might have paid for it in low-income countries.
The spending proposal terminates support of health programs that, according to the proposal, “do not make Americans safer.”
The U.S. supplies just about part of the backup for international fitness, together with early life vaccination, H.I.V. remedy and condition surveillance.