Foreign Aid Cuts

Small win for activists, but SA’s HIV projects won’t reopen

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…

Mia Malan

9 min read

Sign outside the offices of an organisation in Mozambique that was defunded by USAid. Photos: Jesse Copelyn

AFRICA

21 JUL 2025

Mozambican children die after US funding cuts: Who bears responsibility?

The least the Trump administration could have done was provide ample warning that it was going to cut aid

Jesse Copelyn

10 min read

Twenty years of hard lessons — with a dose of good luck and a lot of persistence — has helped Hlokomela Clinic to prepare for the US funding cuts crisis. (Zano Kunene)

ANOVA HEALTH INSTITUTE

29 APR 2025

How this Limpopo NGO prepared for Trump’s funding cuts

The Anova Health Institute, which received the lion’s share of the US President’s Emergency Plan for Aids funding in South Africa, had its support halted in February along with…

Zano Kunene

9 min read