{"id":21033,"date":"2025-01-29T00:24:43","date_gmt":"2025-01-29T01:24:43","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/medexperts.pro\/?p=21033"},"modified":"2025-01-29T01:26:18","modified_gmt":"2025-01-29T01:26:18","slug":"state-department-permits-distribution-of-h-i-v-medications-to-resume-for-now","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/medexperts.pro\/?p=21033","title":{"rendered":"State Department Permits Distribution of H.I.V. Medications to Resume \u2014 for Now"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Experts fear a resurgence of infections in low-income countries if the ban were to continue. The waiver remains in place, while officials review foreign aid programs.<\/p>\n

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The Trump administration on Tuesday issued a waiver for lifesaving medicines and medical services, offering a reprieve for a worldwide H.I.V. treatment program that was halted last week.<\/p>\n

The waiver, announced by Secretary of State Marco Rubio, seemed to allow for the distribution of H.I.V. medications, but whether the waiver extended to preventive drugs or other services offered by the program, the President\u2019s Emergency Plan for AIDS Relief, was not immediately clear.<\/p>\n

Still, PEPFAR\u2019s future remains in jeopardy, with potential consequences for more than 20 million people \u2014 including 500,000 children \u2014 who could lose access to lifesaving medications. Without treatment, millions of people with H.I.V. in low-income countries would be at risk of full-blown AIDS and of premature death.<\/p>\n

\u201cWe can very rapidly return to where the pandemic is exploding, like it was back in the 1980s,\u201d said Dr. Steve Deeks, an H.I.V. expert at the University of California, San Francisco.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n

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\u201cThis really cannot happen,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n

On Monday, the Trump administration ordered health organizations in other countries to immediately stop distributing H.I.V. medications purchased with U.S. aid. The directive stemmed from a freeze \u2014 which may become permanent \u2014 in the activities of PEPFAR, a $7.5 billion program overseen by the State Department.<\/p>\n

Since it started in 2003, PEPFAR is estimated to have saved more than 25 million lives; more than 5.5 million children have been born free of H.I.V. who otherwise would have been infected.<\/p>\n

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Experts fear a resurgence of infections in low-income countries if the ban were to continue. The waiver remains in place, while officials review foreign aid programs.The Trump administration on Tuesday issued a waiver for lifesaving medicines and medical services, offering a reprieve for a worldwide H.I.V. treatment program that was halted last week.The waiver, announced by Secretary of State Marco Rubio, seemed to allow for the distribution of H.I.V. medications, but whether the waiver extended to preventive drugs or other services offered by the program, the President\u2019s Emergency Plan for AIDS Relief, was not immediately clear.Still, PEPFAR\u2019s future remains in jeopardy, with potential consequences for more than 20 million people \u2014 including 500,000 children \u2014 who could lose access to lifesaving medications. Without treatment, millions of people with H.I.V. in low-income countries would be at risk of full-blown AIDS and of premature death.\u201cWe can very rapidly return to where the pandemic is exploding, like it was back in the 1980s,\u201d said Dr. Steve Deeks, an H.I.V. expert at the University of California, San Francisco.\u201cThis really cannot happen,\u201d he said.On Monday, the Trump administration ordered health organizations in other countries to immediately stop distributing H.I.V. medications purchased with U.S. aid. The directive stemmed from a freeze \u2014 which may become permanent \u2014 in the activities of PEPFAR, a $7.5 billion program overseen by the State Department.Since it started in 2003, PEPFAR is estimated to have saved more than 25 million lives; more than 5.5 million children have been born free of H.I.V. who otherwise would have been infected.We are having trouble retrieving the article content.Please enable JavaScript in your browser settings.Thank you for your patience while we verify access. If you are in Reader mode please exit and\u00a0log into\u00a0your Times account, or\u00a0subscribe\u00a0for all of The Times.Thank you for your patience while we verify access.Already a subscriber?\u00a0Log in.Want all of The Times?\u00a0Subscribe.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":21035,"comment_status":"close","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[34],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-21033","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-science"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/medexperts.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21033","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/medexperts.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/medexperts.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medexperts.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medexperts.pro\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=21033"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/medexperts.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21033\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":21036,"href":"https:\/\/medexperts.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21033\/revisions\/21036"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medexperts.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/21035"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/medexperts.pro\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=21033"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medexperts.pro\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=21033"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medexperts.pro\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=21033"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}