A 10-year-old girl who’ll keep going to the local clinic for the medications to suppress the HIV virus — forgetting that it’s now closed.
A house painter who no longer has the strength to do his work.
A teenager who finds comfort in religious music as she wonders why it was her fate to be born HIV positive — and how she will find the medications she needs to keep the virus at bay.
These are three of the dozens of HIV positive people in Zambia we interviewed during a trip there this month to see what the impact has been of the Trump Administration’s suspension and termination of billions of dollars in global health programs.
Administration officials maintain that certain life saving aid — like HIV medications — has been spared. But people on the ground tell a different story.
NPR reached out to the Zambian government for comment on the impact of the cuts and to the U.S. State Department as well. Neither responded to our inquiries.
NPR spoke with dozens of HIV-positive people in Zambia to learn the impact on them. They consistently report chaos and confusion — and, increasingly, people falling ill without their HIV medication. Here are some of their stories.
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How can Trump call himself “pro-life” after doing this?
Move to perspectives since it is posing a question that is not in the article — TP
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Article URL : https://www.npr.org/sections/goats-and-soda/2025/04/20/g-s1-61227/hiv-usaid-zambia-teenager