American cut in anti-AIDS program will provide 150,000 deaths in Africa in the coming years

The American cutbacks on international AIDS fighting programs will lead to 150,000 more HIV deaths in parts of Africa in the coming years. That conclusion attracts American, European and African researchers after a study published on Friday in the medical-scientific trade magazine The Lancet. The research is based on the death rates in seven African countries and expected new infections.

The decision of Donald Trump to stop the financial contribution makes HIV care in many countries in Sub-Sahara Africa worse or even no longer accessible. As a result, many AIDS patients do not get the required AIDS medication to permanently protect their immune system against new infections. As a result, AIDS will spread easier and faster in those countries, which, according to the study, will result in many thousands of extra deaths in the coming years.

Under the former Republican President George W. Bush, the United States decided in 2003 to launch the Anti-Aid program Pepfar. The US financed billions of HIV drugs, tests, and prevention projects in Africa and other parts of the world. For example, AIDS was successfully challenged and millions of lives were saved and saved.

As President, Trump promised to significantly cut the American contribution to international utilities. He also put the knife in Pepfar, and only excluded certain ‘direct life -saving’ medicines from his austerity operation. For this, the US supported the program with $ 7.5 billion a year and said it was more than 20 million patients in anti-HIV drugs.

A protest last week in Washington against the cutbacks in the anti-AIDS program. Campaigners stacked fictional coffins on top of each other to illustrate the many future deaths.