by Sharon Zhang | Jul 30, 2026 | AIDS Crisis, Global health, Marco Rubio, News, PEPFAR, State Department
The U.S. State Department presented a map of Africa at a global AIDS conference this week in which every country was mislabelled and its borders jumbled. The map, as first reported by Substack writer and AIDS expert Emily Bass and confirmed by Reuters, “caused a stir” when it was presented by a top official from the foreign affairs agency. The graphic shows an outline of Africa with six…
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by Marcus Baram | Mar 13, 2026 | AIDS, diseases, DOGE, DOGE cuts, Donald Trump, Food Assistance, HIV, HIV/AIDS, HIV/AIDS funding, Hunger, News, Pandemic, PEPFAR, Public Health, Trump Administration, USAID
“Heartbreaking.” “Devastating.” “Difficult and challenging.” Such are the words used by health care workers, government officials and former U.S. Agency for International Development employees to describe the impact of the agency’s dissolution last year. Since the Trump administration shut down USAID, which had delivered humanitarian aid and medical supplies to countries around the world…
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