Foreign Aid Freeze Leaves Millions Without HIV Treatment

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Usaid funding freeze disrupts global tuberculosis control efforts

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Scott Alexander posted about this: https://www.astralcodexten.com/p/money-saved-by-canceling-pr...

This 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.

> 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".

Any abandoned aid-needing individual in a developing nation has the potential to become a refugee and thus am illegal immigrant.

And 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.

Well, what did dey evah do fuh us???

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