When U.S. foreign aid changed, AIDS workers in Africa felt it

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Health care providers in South Africa and Mozambique say the cancellation or redirection of U.S. PEPFAR funding under the Trump administration has already endangered vulnerable people and cost lives. The shift in American foreign aid priorities has disrupted long-standing HIV treatment programs that serve some of Africa's most impoverished populations. Workers on the ground report gaps in medication supplies, interrupted care, and fear about what comes next as the administration recalibrates its global health commitments. The changes illustrate the immediate human cost when major funding sources shift, consequences that ripple far beyond policy debates in Washington.