HHS dropped a quiet bomb on Friday— eliminating exemptions to 1996 law, now prohibiting FQHCs and HeadStart programs from serving people who are undocumented. I used to believe in good and misinformed. Now every passing day I believe in evil.
#USA: “Every day that passes is an emergency for millions of people for whom PEPFAR is a lifeline.”
3 weeks after the US government froze PEPFAR funding, uncertainty remains over whether this lifeline for millions of people living with HIV has been cut.
#USA: We are calling on the US government to immediately resume funding for the full range of PEPFAR operations as well as other critical health and humanitarian aid.
Uncertainty around PEPFAR program puts millions of people at risk
Only today did they take a stand— really Jamie Raskin(❤️) and a few. I fear it’s too little too late. We will be spinning our wheels while folks rewrite history and blame poor people for (expensive) drug resistant TB, or how about Ebola?The lives this will cost. Not pardonable. Heartbreaking.
I presume there are cameras there. People don’t seem to care or understand the crucial nature of the work USAID does around the world and how it affects us directly. Can anyone access the videos?