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Tue, Aug 4, 2026 20:00 PM
- On January 20th 2025, President Trump signed an executive order pausing funding for the Presidential Emergency Program for AIDS Relief or PEPFAR for short. PEPFAR is the bilateral program which delivers drugs, funding for medical personel, testing and edu -
- The pause in global AIDS funding was partially reversed by protests by the organization Health GAP, which was founded in 1998 by Dr. Allan Berkman, Housing Works, ACT UP/NY & ACT UP/Philadelphia. Just how much has been restored has been obscured by th -
- However In June of this year the State Department had obligated, or pledged, $2.5 billion less than congressionally mandated by the same time in the funding cycle as the program expended in 2024. The PEPFAR Budget is about $4.6 billion, so this is a massi -
- This year, during a preconference session at the International AIDS Conference in Rio de Janiero Brazil, Healthgap and other AIDS organizations disrupted the speech of Jeffrey Graham, Trump’s US Global AIDS Coordinator demanding release of the funds -
- Joining us to discuss this protest and others held at the International AIDS Conference in Brazil is Asia Russell, executive director of Health Gap who has been organizing and protesting at the Conference -
- Russell will discuss the campaigns to push countries like France which used Trump's slashing of global AIDS contributions to cut theirs by 60%. -
- She will also discuss the campaign by the Brazilian people to get access to a highly effective HIV/Prevention drug requiring 2 injections/year that was tested on Brazilians but is now unaffordable because of the super high price tag. The drug costs $28,00 -
- For more information on Health GAP go to https://healthgap.org/ -
Hope for People With AIDS Amid Chaos of Trump Cuts to the Life Saving PEPFAR Program
- Asia Russell, executive director of Health GAP. -
- Backlash Blues by Nina Simone -
- Living in Wartime by Michael Callen -
- https://outfm.org/liberation/index.php/home/internship-application/731-hope-for-people-with-aids-amid-chaos-of-trump-cuts-to-the-life-saving-pepfar-program
