Trump Admin Orders All U.S.-Funded Foreign Clinics to Stop Providing HIV Meds
It is not yet clear whether PEPFAR's preventive services, such as provision of PrEP, will also be permitted to resume.
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So how do you justify this villainy? Just revoking anything that helps
Their justification is almost certainly as simple as "only gays and addicts get this, let it kill them"
Conservatism is sick, but elites like it.
They will become even richer due to the fact that they will reduce expenses on social development, will steal resources. But 'regular people' will not revolt against them, because "yes, they are right, fuck minorities, science and liberalism is bad", i.e. they already are ignorant (and they embrace it!) and uneducated.
It's like in any other authoritarian LMIC country, just fucking Middle Ages.
Capitalists see almost everyone, ie poors, the same way conservatives see their out groups: less than human.
Capitalism is good if there are regulations in place and rule of law is strong.
Trump has literally believed his whole life (and he was taught to fervently believe this by his own father) that any sort of illness is a sign of weakness.
So, in his eyes, better to let these weak people die than waste resources on them.
But I mean what you expect from this freaks syphilis addled brain.
any sort of illness is a sign of weakness
They think in poor countries exactly like that
True, but didn't both of his parent die from pneumonia?
...and Donald used his fathers "weakness" to swindle him.
If you want to eradicate an illness, the best way, according to fascists ,is simply act as if it didn't exist.
It's easy to rule uneducated people
They're freezing 99.9% of domestic and foreign assistance. This is only one specific part of what had been halted.
The idea is to strangle the government and end anything that might keep a single dollar out of the hands of the wealthy.
You don't. There is no justification.