Bi Sasquatch<p>Source: <span class="h-card" translate="no"><a href="https://threads.net/@technologyreview/" class="u-url mention">@<span>technologyreview</span></a></span> </p><p>From the article: Around 1,400 infants are being infected by HIV every day as a result of the new US administration’s cuts to funding to AIDS organizations, new modeling suggests.</p><p>In an executive order issued January 20, President Donald Trump paused new foreign aid funding to global health programs, and four days later, US Secretary of State Marco Rubio issued a stop-work order on existing foreign aid assistance. Surveys suggest that these changes forced more than a third of global organizations that provide essential HIV services to close within days of the announcements. </p><p>Hundreds of thousands of people are losing access to HIV treatments as a result. Women and girls are missing out on cervical cancer screening and services for gender-based violence, too. A waiver Rubio later issued in an attempt to restore lifesaving services has had very little impact. </p><p>“We are in a crisis,” said Jennifer Sherwood, director of research, public policy, at amfAR, the Foundation for AIDS Research, at a data-sharing event on March 17 at Columbia University in New York. “Even funds that had already been appropriated, that were in the field, in people’s bank accounts, [were] frozen.” </p><p><a href="https://c.im/tags/HIV" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>HIV</span></a> <a href="https://c.im/tags/AIDS" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>AIDS</span></a> <a href="https://c.im/tags/amFAR" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>amFAR</span></a> <a href="https://c.im/tags/Healthcare" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>Healthcare</span></a> <a href="https://c.im/tags/USPolitics" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>USPolitics</span></a> <a href="https://c.im/tags/ThePoliticsOfHate" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>ThePoliticsOfHate</span></a> </p><p><a href="https://www.technologyreview.com/2025/03/18/1113288/hiv-could-infect-1400-infants-every-day-due-to-disruptions-in-aid-from-the-us/" target="_blank" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no"><span class="invisible">https://www.</span><span class="ellipsis">technologyreview.com/2025/03/1</span><span class="invisible">8/1113288/hiv-could-infect-1400-infants-every-day-due-to-disruptions-in-aid-from-the-us/</span></a></p>