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BumRushDaShow

(154,412 posts)
Fri Jun 6, 2025, 06:01 AM Jun 6

Trump team set to destroy $12m worth of HIV drugs and contraceptives that were bought before closing USAID

Source: The Independent

Thursday 05 June 2025 23:20 BST


Roughly $12 million worth of HIV-prevention drugs and contraceptives purchased by the U.S. Agency for International Development will likely be destroyed after President Donald Trump dismantled the organization, according to a report.

These drugs have been sitting in distribution centers in Belgium and the UAE since January, when Trump ended the agency’s spending, The Washington Post reported. Now, negotiators have been instructed to sell the drugs or else they’ll be thrown out, according to the outlet.

“The mandate that [the USAID negotiator] has been given is ‘get us money for it, and if you can’t do that, we’re just going to trash it,’” someone with knowledge of the situation told the Post.

These supplies include more than 26 million condoms, 2 million doses of injectable birth control, millions of packages of oral birth control, hundreds of thousands of implantable contraceptive devices, and over 50,000 vials of a drug that prevents HIV contraction, the Post reports. Some of these supplies were earmarked for 18 countries, meaning those governments may never get the aid even though it was already purchased, according to the Post.

Read more: https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/americas/us-politics/trump-usaid-hiv-drugs-destroyed-b2764773.html

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Botany

(74,405 posts)
4. This is aimed not only @ gay people but straight people in Africa too
Fri Jun 6, 2025, 07:33 AM
Jun 6

HIV is transmitted heterosexually too. Cruelty is the point.

Hekate

(98,117 posts)
13. Moreover, HIV is transmitted to fetuses in-utero, dooming them to die of AIDS in childhood...
Fri Jun 6, 2025, 01:15 PM
Jun 6

If pregnant women are treated for HIV, their babies are born healthy. If women with HIV continue to be treated, they will remain healthy enough to raise their children.

This is just one more event that gives the lie to the GOP claim of loving fetuses etc etc etc.

padah513

(2,682 posts)
2. This is just evil.
Fri Jun 6, 2025, 06:30 AM
Jun 6

Everything doesn't need to be a financial transaction. Somebody somewhere can use it.

Irish_Dem

(70,844 posts)
3. They let food rot in warehouses too.
Fri Jun 6, 2025, 06:54 AM
Jun 6

Instead of distributing it to hungry people.

Their goal is to be cruel and watch people suffer and die.

Botany

(74,405 posts)
5. Trump and his Christo Fascist base enjoy the cruelty and the deaths
Fri Jun 6, 2025, 07:38 AM
Jun 6

Btw that food rotting contributed to 300,000 deaths. Cruelty is the point.
This Nazi or Stalin’s level of evil. Such as Stalin’s Holodomor on Ukraine.





Irish_Dem

(70,844 posts)
8. Deliberately killing people for sport.
Fri Jun 6, 2025, 09:00 AM
Jun 6

They are cruel sadists.

Botany did you see the movie MR. JONES? It is an excellent movie.

Mr. Jones (2019 film)

Mr. Jones is a 2019 thriller biographical film. It is based on the true story of the Welsh journalist Gareth Jones, who uncovers the truth of the devastating famine ('Holodomor') in which millions died in the Ukrainian Republic, Soviet Union.

ECL213

(377 posts)
7. Maybe all those rich Hollywood liberals and the liberal elite...
Fri Jun 6, 2025, 08:54 AM
Jun 6

should step up so the stuff doesn't go to waste. I mean, where is George Soros? He controls all of us, doesn't he?

Ruby the Liberal

(26,458 posts)
9. I'll burn it down if the only option is to help someone
Fri Jun 6, 2025, 09:35 AM
Jun 6

who isn't paying me -- Compassionate Conservatism

Nigrum Cattus

(630 posts)
15. project 2025 & fake "christians"
Fri Jun 6, 2025, 01:36 PM
Jun 6

Hate filled RWRE losers.
May they all get what they deserve.
American Taliban

liberalla

(10,537 posts)
16. *Bill Gates* should go pick them up, since he announced he's stepping in with $200 B for aid in Africa
Fri Jun 6, 2025, 03:18 PM
Jun 6

Primarily Africa, I believe...

Don't let it get tossed!!! Or destroyed!!!!!!!

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