A crime against humanity? You be the judge.

Promise of Victory Over H.I.V. Fades as U.S. Withdraws Support

This was supposed to be a breakthrough year in the 44-year-long struggle against H.I.V.

Decades of research and investment produced new approaches to vaccines that were going into their first significant clinical trials.

The hunt for a cure was homing in on key mechanisms to block the virus, which can lurk dormant and near-untraceable in the body for years.

Most critically, a breakthrough preventive drug, lenacapavir, a twice-yearly injection that offers total protection from H.I.V., was to be rapidly rolled out across eastern and southern Africa. The main target: young women. About 300,000 of them were newly infected with the virus last year — half of all new infections worldwide.

Every one of these plans has been derailed by the Trump administration’s slashing of foreign assistance.

https://www.nytimes.com/2025/06/25/health/hiv-lenacapavir-vaccine-trump-cuts-africa.html

Like it or not, there is a real human cost to trump ending funding for programs like this. I suppose I would characterize trump supporters as being indifferent. **************** MOD EDIT: OVERLY RACIST COMMENTS ARE NOT WELCOMED AT USMB.
Why should the USA bear the costs for solving an African problem? Let the countries of Africa pay the costs of the vaccine. The USA has poured trillions of dollars into Africa in aid and money over the decades with nothing to show for it but more disease, poverty and hatred of the USA. It's time to end it.
 

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