Jonathan Cohn, Senior National Correspondent at HuffPost, writes about politics and policy with a focus on social welfare. He is also the author of SICK (2007, HarperCollins) and THE TEN YEAR WAR (2021, St. Martin's).
New Trump administration rules on foreign assistance are prohibiting U.S.-backed programs from delivering HIV prevention drugs to large swaths of the at-risk population abroad, according to what appears to be new State Department guidance that HuffPost obtained and that a United Nations-affiliated program has now
State Department officials have not responded to HuffPost inquiries about the authenticity of the guidance or the motives behind it.me nearly to a halt in the past two weeks. That’s the result of two separate but related actions: a blanket order from President Donald Trump’s administrationforeign aid, as well as an ongoing effort to dismantle the U.S. Agency for International Development, which oversees much of that assistance..
“This really is talking about the population that is most in need of PrEP, especially those who are already on it, having to stop taking a medication that could virtually prevent most HIV infection,”, senior vice president and director of the Global Health & HIV Policy Program at the nonpartisan research organization KFF, told HuffPost after seeing the memo.
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