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 agencys spending, The Washington Post reported. Now, negotiators have been instructed to sell the drugs or else theyll 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 cant do that, were 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

Onthefly
(922 posts)Botany
(74,405 posts)HIV is transmitted heterosexually too. Cruelty is the point.
Hekate
(98,117 posts)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.
White American Republican Babies are O.K. but African black babies not so much.
padah513
(2,682 posts)Everything doesn't need to be a financial transaction. Somebody somewhere can use it.
Irish_Dem
(70,844 posts)Instead of distributing it to hungry people.
Their goal is to be cruel and watch people suffer and die.
Botany
(74,405 posts)Btw that food rotting contributed to 300,000 deaths. Cruelty is the point.
This Nazi or Stalins level of evil. Such as Stalins Holodomor on Ukraine.
Irish_Dem
(70,844 posts)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.
sinkingfeeling
(55,506 posts)ECL213
(377 posts)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)who isn't paying me -- Compassionate Conservatism
republianmushroom
(20,222 posts)enigmania
(321 posts)been clamoring for him to be "more like Raygun".
Hekate
(98,117 posts)Nigrum Cattus
(630 posts)Hate filled RWRE losers.
May they all get what they deserve.
American Taliban
liberalla
(10,537 posts)Primarily Africa, I believe...
Don't let it get tossed!!! Or destroyed!!!!!!!
Evolve Dammit
(20,798 posts)intrepidity
(8,302 posts)Such mega assholes.