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How the culture war came for condoms, PrEP, and HIV testing
How the culture war came for condoms, PrEP, and HIV testing
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One of the most successful global health
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programs in history is being quietly
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dismantled and it's in part because of
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America's culture wars. I recently spoke
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with researchers about a new study on
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PEPFAR, the program the US has been
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using for decades to support the global
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fight against HIV. They found that under
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the Trump administration, more than 77%
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of PEPFAR funded organizations have
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either lost funding or experienced
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serious payment delays over the past
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year. According to their survey, at
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least 1,700
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HIV treatment sites have closed, more
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than 16,000 health workers have lost
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their jobs, and nearly two-thirds of
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organizations say they've had to reduce
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HIV [music] treatment or prevention
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services. But public health experts told
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me these cuts are not being felt [music]
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evenly. They're falling hardest on the
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communities most at risk of HIV,
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including LGBTQ people, young women, and
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sex workers. In many cases,
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organizations said they were flagged and
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may have lost funding because they used
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terms like gender or LGBTQ, [music]
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a casualty of Trump's opposition to the
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very American concept of DEI. Since it
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was launched by President George W. Bush
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in 2003, PEPFAR has saved an estimated
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25 million lives and prevented millions
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of babies from being born with HIV. The
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experts I spoke with warned that cutting
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testing, prevention, and outreach today
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could lead to more HIV infections in the
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future, making the epidemic much harder
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and also more expensive to control. And
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it's all because this bipartisan
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program, which began under Republican
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leadership and thrived and expanded
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under three successive presidencies,
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including during Trump's first term, has
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never faced such turmoil.