Sadly Trump probably still thinks AIDS only affects “The Gays(tm)”
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Or black people
Or DEI people
Translated to right-wing populist
Sounds really bad for Africa, especially South Africa where the HIV/AIDS rate per capita is the worst in the world. South Africa has said USAID only makes up 17% (which if true is in itself an enormous amount for one sovereign nation to depend on others, much less one single source) of it's health and human services, yet, almost every HIV clinic in the country has shut down since funding stopped, which begs the question, just how much of South Africa's entire HIV/AIDS budget was being paid for by USAID.
HIV infections could jump over 6 times
So they would . . . Sextuple?
I'll see myself out . . .
International aid, Byanyima said, “helped an American company to innovate, to come up with something that will pay them millions and millions
That's the problem: It wasn't enough. Companies like Gilead are only interested in returns of billions and billions.
Getting even $100 million back (profit) after spending 10 years developing a drug would be considered a huge waste of time. They only get to keep the patent for ~20 years which means such a drug would only be returning ~5 million a year... A drop in the bucket
The US subsidizes the cost of developing life-saving drugs like this precisely because it isn't economical to do so otherwise. USAID also guarantees minimum sale amounts of US-funded/developed drugs.
Without USAID a big part of the benefit to working with the US to develop new drugs/treatments is gone.