The U.S. Spent Billions Fighting AIDS. What Now?

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  Earlier this week, our colleague Nicolas Barrio went to visit an HIV AIDS clinic in Kampala, Uganda.

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  Everything is quiet.

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  The clinic was closed, shut down after President Trump froze almost all foreign aid money.

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  Only a security guard and a cleaner were on the premises.

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  The security guard at the gate says he's not allowed to let anyone inside.

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  Now he tells me that people have been coming and being turned away,

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  and as a result, no one now comes.

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  Before it closed, it was providing care to hundreds of patients with HIV AIDS every day.

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  And meantime, all the medicine that's sitting inside this clinic is just locked away?

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  Yes.

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  All the medicine?

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  Yes.

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  All the supplies.

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  Because people who have been working there were told not to return.

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  Since its founding, this clinic has been funded almost entirely by US foreign aid.

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  For more than 20 years, it's been part of a program known as PEPFAR,

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  a multi billion dollar US effort specifically designed to stop the spread of HIV AIDS globally.

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  And how important are the services provided by this clinic?

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  So they are very, very important because it helps people who live in rural areas,

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  people who have no money to pay for these tests,

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