How the culture war came for condoms, PrEP, and HIV testing

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0:00One of the most successful global health

0:02programs in history is being quietly

0:04dismantled and it's in part because of

0:06America's culture wars. I recently spoke

0:09with researchers about a new study on

0:11PEPFAR, the program the US has been

0:13using for decades to support the global

0:16fight against HIV. They found that under

0:18the Trump administration, more than 77%

0:22of PEPFAR funded organizations have

0:24either lost funding or experienced

0:26serious payment delays over the past

0:28year. According to their survey, at

0:30least 1,700

0:33HIV treatment sites have closed, more

0:35than 16,000 health workers have lost

0:38their jobs, and nearly two-thirds of

0:40organizations say they've had to reduce

0:42HIV [music] treatment or prevention

0:44services. But public health experts told

0:46me these cuts are not being felt [music]

0:48evenly. They're falling hardest on the

0:50communities most at risk of HIV,

0:53including LGBTQ people, young women, and

0:56sex workers. In many cases,

0:59organizations said they were flagged and

1:01may have lost funding because they used

1:03terms like gender or LGBTQ, [music]

1:06a casualty of Trump's opposition to the

1:09very American concept of DEI. Since it

1:11was launched by President George W. Bush

1:14in 2003, PEPFAR has saved an estimated

1:1725 million lives and prevented millions

1:20of babies from being born with HIV. The

1:22experts I spoke with warned that cutting

1:25testing, prevention, and outreach today

1:28could lead to more HIV infections in the

1:31future, making the epidemic much harder

1:34and also more expensive to control. And

1:36it's all because this bipartisan

1:39program, which began under Republican

1:41leadership and thrived and expanded

1:44under three successive presidencies,

1:46including during Trump's first term, has

1:48never faced such turmoil.

How the culture war came for condoms, PrEP, and HIV testing

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0:00One of the most successful global health

0:02programs in history is being quietly

0:04dismantled and it's in part because of

0:06America's culture wars. I recently spoke

0:09with researchers about a new study on

0:11PEPFAR, the program the US has been

0:13using for decades to support the global

0:16fight against HIV. They found that under

0:18the Trump administration, more than 77%

0:22of PEPFAR funded organizations have

0:24either lost funding or experienced

0:26serious payment delays over the past

0:28year. According to their survey, at

0:30least 1,700

0:33HIV treatment sites have closed, more

0:35than 16,000 health workers have lost

0:38their jobs, and nearly two-thirds of

0:40organizations say they've had to reduce

0:42HIV [music] treatment or prevention

0:44services. But public health experts told

0:46me these cuts are not being felt [music]

0:48evenly. They're falling hardest on the

0:50communities most at risk of HIV,

0:53including LGBTQ people, young women, and

0:56sex workers. In many cases,

0:59organizations said they were flagged and

1:01may have lost funding because they used

1:03terms like gender or LGBTQ, [music]

1:06a casualty of Trump's opposition to the

1:09very American concept of DEI. Since it

1:11was launched by President George W. Bush

1:14in 2003, PEPFAR has saved an estimated

1:1725 million lives and prevented millions

1:20of babies from being born with HIV. The

1:22experts I spoke with warned that cutting

1:25testing, prevention, and outreach today

1:28could lead to more HIV infections in the

1:31future, making the epidemic much harder

1:34and also more expensive to control. And

1:36it's all because this bipartisan

1:39program, which began under Republican

1:41leadership and thrived and expanded

1:44under three successive presidencies,

1:46including during Trump's first term, has

1:48never faced such turmoil.

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