The $400 million the United States congress removed from a list of funding programmes the Trump administration wants to cut doesn’t cancel the cuts to HIV and TB programmes made in February
The country isn’t getting extra money from the Global Fund to Fight Aids, TB and Malaria; it has to use cash from a grant it has already been awarded and was cut by 16% in June
With the 12 specialised key population clinics in South Africa funded by the US government, and now shuttered, getting treatment at government clinics has been difficult, if not impossible
Activists say the health minister is in denial over the impact of US funding cuts and accusing them and the media of overblowing the crisis and spreading disinformation
A modelling study released in March gives a clue at which price the jab, lenacapavir, would be worth the health department’s while
Cancellation letters, which end millions of rands of South African universities’ US-government funded HIV and TB research grants with immediate effect, started to roll in over the weekend
Until recently, the US President’s Emergency Plan for Aids Relief funded nonprofits in South Africa to help provincial health departments test people for HIV and put them on treatment
A federal judge has enforced a temporary restraining order blocking Donald Trump from freezing federal grants
Such programmes still qualify for a limited waiver, which will expire towards the end of April, but only for approved activities
The US has said who qualifies for a waiver during the Trump administration’s pause in foreign aid but it doesn’t allow for anti-HIV pills, unless for pregnant women