Reverend Chondwe highlights a significant decline in church attendance linked to the shuttering of U.S.-funded clinics, which provided vital care and medications for HIV patients. The abrupt cuts to foreign assistance under the Trump Administration have left many without crucial medicines, risking their health and well-being. Although officials claimed that essential HIV care would continue, the on-ground reality contradicts this, as clinics face closures and staff layoffs. Frustration mounts among Zambians, who feel the dependence on foreign aid and call for government action to address the crisis.
People are falling ill because the U.S.-funded clinics where they got their HIV medications and care have suddenly been shuttered.
An untold number of people with HIV have simply and suddenly lost access to their medication.
The halting of foreign assistance... crippled the systems that enabled people to get their AIDS medicines.
They acknowledged that their country had become dependent on foreign aid and that the government needs to do more to fill the vast gaps.
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