A religious movement that has so often taken public stands has been unusually quiet since Trump gutted the program to combat ...

Rubio has suggested those concerns are overblown, considering that PEPFAR remains “85 percent operative,” a claim that he made repeatedly in budget testimony before Congress.

In late 2002, before PEPFAR first launched, U2 lead singer Bono did the final stop of his Heart of America tour in Nashville. The year prior, 2.3 million Africans died because of HIV/AIDS.

For 20 plus years, the focus for the United States President’s Emergency Plan for AIDS Relief, PEPFAR, has been to keep people alive. President Bush’s program saved 26 million lives in Africa ...

PEPFAR withdrawal has spurred on govt to become more self-reliant - Mashatile The Deputy President said African governments need to use their own natural resources to fund their programmes and ...

In fiscal 2024, the report says, PEPFAR provided medication to 20.6 million people, including 566,000 children, HIV prevention services to 2.3 million girls and women, and testing for 83.8 million.

With the help of Pepfar, Sister Staley says, conditions in Eswatini improved dramatically. “All these people that are living with H.I.V. have undetectable H.I.V.,” she says.

Women and girls in Africa are at escalated risk of violence, exploitation, poverty, and HIV infection, due to the Trump administration’s abrupt shuttering of more than 80 percent of the United States ...

06/11/2025 As Malawi prepares for elections in September, young candidates are pushing for political inclusion. But entrenched party structures and financial barriers stand in their way.

The House just passed $9.4 billion in DOGE cuts. It comes one week after Musk and Trump's feud exploded into public view. Four Republicans voted against cuts to public broadcasting and foreign aid.

The number of initiations, or people who have taken at least one dose of the drug, rose in Africa from fewer than 700 in 2016 to more than 6 million by late 2024, according to PrEPWatch, a global ...