20M lives at risk after funding for AIDS medication suspended(npr.org)

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20M lives at risk after funding for AIDS medication suspended

https://www.npr.org/sections/goats-and-soda/2025/01/25/g-s1-44762/pepfar-trump-hiv-foreign-aid

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If treatment is stopped, viral load is expected to return to pretreatment levels within a few weeks. This is potentially a human caused public health disaster.

Similar programs for treating individuals with TB, malaria and other illnesses have also been suspended.

https://www.reuters.com/business/healthcare-pharmaceuticals/...

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