[Viva] Fwd: IAS statement: Restore access to all PEPFAR-supported HIV services immediately

[Denise Wozniak]

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From: International AIDS Society <info at mail.iasociety.org>
Date: Wed, Jan 29, 2025, 11:49 a.m.
Subject: IAS statement: Restore access to all PEPFAR-supported HIV services
immediately
To: Denise Wozniak <deniseswozniak at gmail.com>


IAS – the International AIDS Society – notes the decision to waive the
suspension of “life-saving humanitarian assistance”, including “core
life-saving medicine.”
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*29 January 2025 (Geneva, Switzerland) *– IAS – the International AIDS
Society
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– notes the decision to waive the suspension of “life-saving humanitarian
assistance”, including “core life-saving medicine.” This should now ensure
that HIV treatment disbursed by the US President's Emergency Plan for AIDS
Relief (PEPFAR) can continue across all PEPFAR-supported countries.

The Trump administration froze foreign aid funding, including to PEPFAR
and, unexpectedly on 24 January, it imposed a stop-work order on existing
operations
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Clinic staff were sent home, distribution of ARVs bought with US funds was
halted – cutting off HIV treatment for 20.6 million people. On 28 January,
new US Secretary of State Marco Rubio issued a temporary waiver
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of aspects of this freeze.

“Since its bipartisan creation, PEPFAR has always been synonymous with
saving lives and this waiver restores – in some part – that legacy.
However, PEPFAR’s continued and uninterrupted support of all HIV treatment
and prevention services must be fully restored,” IAS President Beatriz
Grinsztejn said.

“PEPFAR has been and should continue to be an active contributor to
changing the trajectory of the HIV epidemic. It is our hope that this
waiver remains in place and will be expanded to all HIV services.”

For now, the emphasis should be on ensuring that, as a matter of urgency,
PEPFAR implementers return to work to ensure that access to critical HIV
services is not further interrupted and that communities most in need are
able to get the care and treatment they need.


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