JUBA, South Sudan ¨C As the world¡¯s richest men slash American aid for the world¡¯s poorest children, they insist that all is well. ¡°No one has died as a result of a brief pause to do a sanity check on foreign aid funding,¡± Elon Musk said. ¡°No one.¡±
That is not true. In South Sudan, one of the world¡¯s poorest countries, the efforts by Musk and U.S. President Donald Trump are already leading children to die.
Peter Donde was a 10-year-old infected with HIV from his mother during childbirth. But American aid kept Peter strong, even as his parents died from AIDS. A program started by former U.S. President George W. Bush called PEPFAR (U.S. President¡¯s Emergency Plan for AIDS Relief) saved 26 million lives from AIDS ¡ª and one was Peter¡¯s.
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