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Tanuki

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15. NYTimes reports that Trump will kill a million people
Tue May 23, 2017, 11:10 PM
May 2017

in sub-Saharan Africa and elsewhere if the global health program cuts in his budget go through. Looks like he already "forgot" what he said he would "never forget."

https://www.google.com/amp/s/mobile.nytimes.com/2017/05/23/world/africa/cuts-to-aids-treatment-programs-could-cost-a-million-lives.amp.html

"WASHINGTON — At least one million people will die in sub-Saharan Africa and elsewhere, researchers and advocates said on Tuesday, if funding cuts proposed by the Trump administration to global public health programs are enacted.

The United States currently spends more than $6 billion annually on programs that buy antiretroviral drugs for about 11.5 million people worldwide who are infected with H.I.V., the virus that causes AIDS. The Trump administration has proposed slashing those programs by at least $1.1 billion — nearly a fifth of their current funding, said Jen Kates, a vice president at the Kaiser Family Foundation.

“These are lifesaving interventions, and these levels of reductions will significantly curtail service delivery,” Ms. Kates said.".....(more)

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