Trump Slashed Hiv Projects. Will The Us Kill The Fund That Fed Them Too?

Chaos and devastation is the position that South African USAID-funded health projects find themselves in after the Trump administration closed them down overnight on February 26 .

But it wasnt only them. There were 5 800 such projects around the world .

The bigger question now is: what will happen to the US governments Aids fund, Pepfar, where most of the money for these projects came from?Will that too close down?

On March 25, the US congress will vote to reauthorise Pepfar or not. How will they vote?

And will the US pull out of the Global Fund for HIV, tuberculosis and malaria?

Mia Malan puts these questions to the 20223 Pepfar head of staff, Jirair Ratevosian. Hes now a Hock infectious disease fellow at Duke Universitys Global Health Institute and also the chief author of a report that explains how to lower Pepfars costs by 20 over five years .