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Johannesburg, South Africa – 29 January 2025
1. Wide of security informing a man about the closure of engage men’s health clinic
2. Close-up of engage men’s health clinic
3. SOUNDBITE (English) Pontsho Pilane, activist and author:
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“NGOs that are funded by PEPFAR (the President’s Emergency Plan for AIDS Relief) cannot not operate without this funding. So the first question that needs to be asked and that many people in the sector who are involved in HIV work in one way or the other, are asking themselves what’s going to happen. There has been a waiver to the no-stop work order, because that says that people can now work if it’s for emergency health services.”
4. Wide of Wits Reproductive Health and HIV trans-health center
5. Mid of a student exiting the Wits Reproductive Health and HIV trans-health center
6. A closure notice placed inside the Wits Reproductive Health and HIV trans-health center
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Lagos state, Nigeria – 31 January 2025
7. Various of Lagosians at the market
8. Mid of Lagosians on the street
9. SOUNDBITE (English), Dokun Adedeji, Medical Doctor/African Affairs Analyst:
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"The world should worry about the ascension of Trump. Look at what he’s done, WHO (World Health Organization). How can America withdraw from WHO? The only thing he thinks about is the money they put in there but not the benefit that accrues and the goodwill that accrues to America through that little thing. The world is in trouble."
10. Wide various of Lagosians on the street
11. Lagosians at the market
12. Various of Lagosians walking in the streets
STORYLINE:
Many Africans had known that Trump’s “America First” outlook meant their continent was likely to be last among his priorities.
But they hadn’t expected the abrupt halt to foreign aid from the world’s largest donor that stops money flowing for wide-ranging projects like disease response, girls’ education and free school lunches.
Even after global outrage prompted some exemptions to Trump’s order, sub-Saharan Africa could suffer more than any other region as most global aid pauses 90 days for a spending review.
The U.S. gave the region more than $6.5 billion in humanitarian assistance last year.
Thoughts immediately turned to arguably the world’s most successful foreign aid program, the President’s Emergency Plan for AIDS Relief, or PEPFAR.
Over two decades, the program with bipartisan support has been credited with saving more than 25 million lives, the vast majority in Africa, the continent it was designed to help most.
More than 8 million in South Africa live with HIV, and authorities say PEPFAR helps provide life-saving antiretroviral treatment to 5.5 million people every day.
U.S. Secretary of State Marco Rubio has announced that program offering “life-saving” assistance including medicine, medical services, food and shelter would be exempted from the aid freeze, though what qualifies is not immediately clear.
In South Africa’s largest city, Johannesburg, and elsewhere, PEPFAR-funded facilities were still shut days after the exemptions were announced and HIV patients were referred to government hospitals and clinics.
Experts said the effects on HIV programs remain unclear, but the consequences could be swift, even dangerous.
A humanitarian official told The Associated Press that at least 1.2 million people in Congo could lose life-saving support because of the aid freeze.
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