Melody Schreiber, NPR; Trump pauses funding for anti-HIV program that prevented 26 million AIDS deaths
[Kip Currier: The amorality of the statement below is staggeringly appalling, but not unexpected, from an administration whose guiding principle is transactional policymaking, even in examples involving great human suffering and need.
To label as "a moral imperative" the immediate cessation of lifesaving medications for Global South persons with HIV and AIDS is farcical Orwellian rhetoric.]
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"On Sunday, the State Department confirmed the halt in an email to NPR. The United States "is no longer going to blindly dole out money with no return for the American people," State spokesperson Tammy Bruce said in a statement, calling the pause "a moral imperative.""
