Partial waiver on US foreign aid freeze offers potential reprieve to HIV/Aids programmes
Nongovernmental organisations funded by the US likely to resume some activities
29 January 2025 - 11:34
UPDATED 29 January 2025 - 23:00
US secretary of state Marco Rubio has issued a waiver partially lifting the Trump administration’s freeze on foreign aid, potentially offering a reprieve for US-funded HIV/Aids programmes that provide life-saving treatment.
The “life-saving humanitarian assistance” waiver includes “core life-saving medicine, medical services, food, shelter and subsistence assistance, as well as supplies and reasonable administrative costs” and directs organisations implementing life-saving humanitarian assistance to resume work if they have stopped, US media reports say...
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