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Kristof: Musk Is Wrong,
People Are Already Dying

OPINION

Mar 16, 2025 8:15 AM CDT

Kristof: Musk Is Wrong, People Are Already Dying

Columnist predicts deaths will soar in undeveloped nations over aid cuts

(Newser) - Elon Musk has insisted that nobody has died as the result of slashed US foreign aid. "That is not true," writes columnist Nicholas Kristof in the New York Times . "In South Sudan, one of the world's poorest countries, the efforts by Musk and President Trump are...

US Halts
HIV Drugs
in Foreign
Countries

Jan 28, 2025 3:55 PM CST

US Halts HIV Drugs in Foreign Countries

White House is putting a 22-year-old AIDS relief program on hold

(Newser) - One of President Trump's new initiatives has brought an AIDS relief program to an abrupt halt overseas after 22 years, reports the New York Times .

The program: Called PEPFAR, or the President's Emergency Plan for AIDS Relief, it was started by George W. Bush in 2003. A State

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We're Close on AIDS:
Don't Blow It Now, America

Bono, George W Bush

Dec 1, 2011 1:20 PM CST

We're Close on AIDS: Don't Blow It Now, America

Bono, George W. Bush warn against the US pulling back

(Newser) - Two big names—Bono and George W. Bush—weigh in on World AIDS Day, both with the general theme that tremendous progress has been made in the last decade but that it won't matter if the world, specifically the US, gets complacent now. Some highlights:

Bono: How did all

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Bush's Unsung AIDS Policy

Jan 5, 2008 6:19 PM CST

Bush's Unsung AIDS Policy

Under-the-radar program saves millions in Africa

(Newser) - A little known, $19-billion program has provided medicine to 1.4 million AIDS-stricken Africans and may be President Bush's most enduring success story, the New York Times reports. “I’m amazed at how little (Americans) know about Pepfar,” said one Ugandan doctor of the program. Africans are...

Bush Asks Congress to Double AIDS Effort

May 30, 2007 6:53 AM CDT

Bush Asks Congress to Double AIDS Effort

Calls for $30 billion over 5 years, after he's out of office

(Newser) - President Bush wants to double the funding of a U.S. program that battles the global AIDS crisis. Bush will ask Congress today to commit $30 billion over the next five years after the current program expires in 2008. The extra cash could save the lives of 1.5 million...