Nigeria, July 25 -- The Trump administration is making plans to shut down the US President's Emergency Plan for AIDS Relief (PEPFAR), a federal programme that provides funding for HIV treatment in Nigeria and many other developing countries.
Documents obtained by the New York Times revealed that the US government has begun mapping out plans to shut down the programme.
The government has drafted a new plan to shift the programme from one that provides medicines and services to treat and prevent the spread of HIV in low-income countries, to one centred on "bilateral relationships" with developing countries.
Organisations have been instructed to begin preparing for a transition and start phasing out US support in several countries, some w...
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