U.S. Quietly Drafts Plan to End Program That Saved Millions From AIDS

https://www.nytimes.com/2025/07/23/health/pepfar-shutdown.html

20 comments

  1. it’s temporary like his presidency. It’s already saved millions and he can’t take that back.

  2. Heck yes, they meaning the Trump administration don’t know anyone with AIDS, why would they care?

  3. This might be too simplistic, but… pay China to make the drug for less. They could probably set up a factory in a month and crank it out. Plus they’d get good public relations.

  4. Can we change the headlines to replace the US with current administration? Not all want to fry the country.

  5. TIL the whole world was dependent on the US president for AIDs funding.

  7. Why quietly? Just announce it proudly like all the other shitty stuff we’ve done over the last year. No one will attempt to stop you.

  9. If something helps brown skinned people Trump will be against it.

  11. The one thing that was saved by amendments to the big beautiful bill as well as saved after Elon cut it?

  12. Despite being the best businessmen in the world, these Republicans don’t understand economics, velocity of money, supply chains, international trade, social relations, politics, human capital, or anything else that they can easily learn about if they listened to anyone who knows what they are talking about.

  13. Time to let Chinese taxpayers pay for it. Russia, or whoever. We need to fix our own problems. Noone is preventing all ya’ll complaining about this to donate to a charity that helps out AID’s programs. Get busy writing those checks folks and quit bitching about it.

  14. So now they’re pulling back Republican programs because they’re woke. That tracks.

  15. So what? helping to stop AIDS is woke or whats the reasoning behind this insensitive move??

  16. Hey. America first. It’s not like more people outside of the US will get aids, travel here, and then the risk of Americans getting aids increases….

  17. quietly? I just read about this. In the fucking NEWS.

    They are quiet about those Epstein files.

  18. Man living in the vantablack timeline feels great

  19. Oh, it’s not very quiet. They want to end PEPFAR. Reason unclear, other than that then they can spend that money on something else (like ICE).

    Wait until RFK/Dr Oz says health insurance won’t pay for medications unless someone has been diagnosed with the disease the medication is meant to fight. They’ll couch it in such a way that it will sound obvious. I mean, who takes a medication for something they’re not sick with?

    First of all, that’s vaccines, which he doesn’t like.
    Second of all, PrEP is why HIV infection in US is much more under control now…FOR now.

  20. It’s ok, we’re quietly drafting plans to end trade that was keeping millions of Americans from being unemployed.

    Enjoy your shitshow.

    Sincerely,

    The actual Free World.

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