A new drug that gives almost complete protection against the virus was to be administered across Africa this year. Now, much of the funding for that effort is gone.

  • Gowron_Howard@lemmy.world
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    The pharmaceutical industry in America wouldn’t want to help eradicate HIV in other countries while simultaneously charging many people for the monthly drugs on their own soil. They don’t want to cure anybody when they can get a new monthly subscriber to their overinflated drug prices.

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      PEPFAR was targeted by Musk because he is a racist asshole who didn’t want money going to help black Africans.