The pause in global health funding has frozen activities at health clinics across Africa that rely on the President’s Emergency Plan for AIDS Relief (PEPFAR), raising immediate

The US State Department has lifted the ban on HIV aid to SA and other low-income after President Donald Trump issued a directive to halt it in his first week.

Almost 136,000 babies are expected to be born with HIV in the next three months, mostly in Africa, because of the Trump administration’s “stop work order” on foreign assistance, according to a top research foundation.

CAPE TOWN - Health advocates have warned that the Trump administration's funding freeze for HIV/Aids organisations in South Africa has devastating consequences. Bhekisisa editor, Mia Malan, said that the effects of this decision were already being felt.