Donald Trump, US President (left) and HIV patients (right)
Johannesburg: US President Donald Trump has done great injustice to millions of HIV patients from South Africa. A decision by Trump has stopped getting medicines and treatment to these HIV patients. Due to this, their remaining life has also become hell. These situations have arisen after the US has stopped foreign aid.
HIV patients are struggling for treatment
Thousands of people suffering from HIV (Human Immuno Defecience Virus) in South Africa are struggling for treatment after Trump’s decision. South Africa is one of the most affected countries in the world in HIV infection cases, where millions of people are living with the disease. About six months ago, after a decision by President Donald Trump, the assistance related to HIV from the US was stopped. Soon after, such non-profit clinics were closed in many parts of the country including Johannesburg, providing free services to sexual workers and other groups struggling with HIV threat. The sudden closure of these clinics threatened the lives of thousands of people.
Threat to life of millions of patients
Drugs and treatment stalled 12 major clinics across South Africa, with more than 63,000 people taking regular treatment. About 2,20,000 people obstructed their daily life -saving medicines when the aid stopped. As soon as the supply of the drug came to a standstill, people ran to buy medicines in the panic. Many sex workers and people of the transgender community, while hiding the identity, said that they have to buy medicines at expensive rates from the black market. In some cases this price has reached double.
Patients being returned without medicine
A sex worker and a mother of three children said that government hospitals returned her and she could not take antiretroviral medicines for four months. She said passionately, “I just kept thinking about my children … How would I explain to her that I have become ill due to my livelihood?” He received a month’s medicine from a mobile clinic in June, but he is not convinced about the future.
Government assured
In view of this huge crisis, the South African government has said that it is committed to save the HIV program and is taking measures to compensate American aid. Although experts say that if this deduction of foreign aid continued for a long time or not found alternative solutions, then there may be millions of new HIV infections and thousands of additional deaths in the country. Although the US has now allowed some essential life -saving services to resume at a limited level, the crisis is still not completely averted. (AP)
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