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Read Replies (2) | Respond to Trump’s Legacy Will Be the Countless People Killed by His Policies Gregg Gonsalves including me , have written about the devastation these few months have caused to important programs across the federal government, and the ways that science and public health have been undermined in both word and deed.paper in one of The Lancet ’s family of journals, Jan Hontelez, from Erasmus University Medical College in Rotterdam, and colleagues from around the world estimated the short-term effects of a 90-day interruption in funding for the US’s flagship global HIV/AIDS program , the President’s Emergency Plan for AIDS Relief (PEPFAR). Three months might not seem like a long time, but it’s enough to cause tremendous harm. The excess deaths the study predicts under various scenarios in seven sub-Saharan African countries range from 64,000 to 70,000 over the next five years. Given that most PEPFAR sites are now in limbo, we will soon be able to put these predictions to the test. Longer-term estimates of the effects of the cessation of PEPFAR funding are even more grim. Debra ten Brink at the Burnet Institute in Australia and colleagues in The Lancet HIV suggest that anticipated international aid reductions, including the cessation of PEPFAR funding, may lead to 4.4 million to 10.8 million additional new HIV infections by 2030 and between 770,000 to 2.9 million HIV-related deaths in children and adults by 2030. These estimates are for HIV only. The impact on tuberculosis, malaria, and other health conditions is similarly grisly. Mathematical modeler Brooke Nichols from Boston University has estimates for these additional effects of Trump’s policies at impactcounter.com . thenation.com
