Tac Warns Of Crisis As Us Halts Pepfar Funding

The Treatment Action Campaign TAC says the suspension of the Presidents Emergency Plan for AIDS Relief PEPFAR funding for the treatment of HIV/AIDS will have a catastrophic impact on patients. This is because the Trump Administration has now put funding for NGOs in South Africa on hold.

The immediate cessation of PEPFAR funding has resulted in the sudden suspension of critical health support services at NGOs across the nation.

This funding is critical to sustain life-saving treatment for South Africans, as well as support services for babies and orphans.

The TACs Mark Heywood says HIV and Aids patients in South Africa are going to be severely affected.

It will have a very serious impact and its not so much the impact on NGOs but its the impact on people living with HIV and patients, because most of the PEPFAR funding, goes to research institutes that employ doctors who are seconded to work in public sector clinics around the country to provide services to vulnerable groups such as people from the LGBTIQ community and directly to provide medicine so the impact is really on the front line.