“The most shareable PEPFAR piece I’ve seen” by Toby Tremlett🔹

This is a link post. This piece, from @Garrison, @Lauren Gilbert and @tomwein, is really great quick summary of the US foreign aid pause, focused on PEPFAR (the US funded AIDs reduction effort). The most affecting aspect of the piece, for me, was the prognoses for people who would no longer receive drugs from the programme: Perhaps those in the most immediate danger are the children of HIV-positive mothers. PEPFAR currently supports around 680,000 pregnant women with ARV treatment—without access to these drugs, some 20-40 percent of them will transmit HIV to their babies. Without ARV treatment, about half of those infants will die within their first two years of life, most within the first few months. We could very well return to the world of the mid-2000s, where AIDS is once again a death sentence for a large percentage of those infected with HIV. Nor would the [...] --- First published: February 6th, 2025 Source: https://forum.effectivealtruism.org/posts/2f8GXF4Jv6W6jaGff/the-most-shareable-pepfar-piece-i-ve-seen --- Narrated by TYPE III AUDIO.