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Zimbabwe: Trump Funding Cut - Health Ministry Seeks Supplementary Budget
2025-04-20 02:45:04| Spiritual Career Counseling
THE Ministry of Health and Child Care has proposed that Treasury presents a supplementary budget to address the impact of the withdrawal of United States funding for the health sector, especially on HIV/Aids programmes.The Permanent Secretary for Health and Child Care, Dr Aspect Maunganidze, said the procurement of Anti-Retroviral drugs, condoms and other measures to prevent the transmission of sexually-transmitted infections had been affected by the withdrawal of the US President's Emergency Plan for AIDS Relief (PEPFAR).Dr Maunganidze said this when he appeared before the joint sitting of the Portfolio Committee on Health and Child Care and the Thematic Committee on HIV and Aids to brief them on the impact of the withdrawal of US funding and measures they were taking to alleviate the impact.Soon after returning to the White House, US President Donald Trump suspended all foreign aid administered through the US Agency for International Aid (USAID). While PEPFAR is overseen by the US St...
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