Kenya’s HIV patients, including children, on edge as US stops aid
At the Nyumbani Children's Home in Kenya's capital Nairobi, the facility's staff fears for the future of children with HIV/AIDS as US freezes foreign aid. Without U.S. funding, distribution from the Nairobi warehouse, which stocks all U.S. government-donated HIV medicine to Kenya, has ceased, leaving supplies of some drugs worryingly low, according to a former USAID official and a health official in Kenya. The 90-day foreign aid freeze, ordered by U.S. President Donald Trump has disrupted the global supply of HIV medicines as well as drugs for other diseases. Reuters’ Fiona Jones reports.