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US aid freeze puts HIV-positive orphans in Kenya at risk as medical supplies dwindle

  • Two-Year-Old Evans suffers from HIV and has been living at Nyumbani Children's Home in Nairobi for care after failing medical treatment.
  • Due to a freeze in funding from the U.S. Agency for International Development, Nyumbani's access to antiretroviral medication may end soon, threatening children living with HIV.
  • Sister Tresa Palakudy, who has been at Nyumbani for 28 years, warns that without continued support, children at Nyumbani could face life-threatening situations.
  • The Kenyan government cautions that it has supplies of antiretroviral drugs to last only six months, putting the health of approximately 1.3 million people on HIV treatment at risk.
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U.S. aid freeze puts HIV-positive orphans in Kenya at risk as medical supplies dwindle

Two-year-old Evans was brought to the Nyumbani Children’s Home in Nairobi, Kenya a year ago, suffering from HIV and tuberculosis. With no family to care for him, Evans was referred to the orphanage by a health center after he stopped responding to medical treatment.

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US aid freeze puts HIV-positive orphans in Kenya at risk as medical supplies dwindle

A U.S. aid freeze is threatening the lives of HIV-positive orphans at Nyumbani Children’s Home in Nairobi. Two-year-old Evans and 100 other children rely on free antiretroviral drugs

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US aid suspension alters supply chains for HIV and malaria products

The U.S. government's foreign aid freeze has turned the supply chain of medical products crucial to combating diseases such as HIV and malaria in some of the world's poorest countries upside down, two sources familiar with the sector said.The U.S. Agency for International Development (USAID) often annually orders some $600 million worth of products such as drugs, diagnostic tests and mosquito nets, under one of its largest health supply contract…

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US cuts leave HIV orphans without medicine

By Palesa Matlala Over 1,000 vulnerable children might lose support as US funding cuts threaten to close Soweto AIDS support centre. Three HIV-positive siblings who finally agreed to start treatment now face uncertainty as their trusted caregivers might disappear. Three HIV-positive children in Soweto might lose their chance to start life-saving treatment because the organisation caring for them is running out of money. The Mtshali* children we…

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