{"id":233347,"date":"2025-02-06T18:40:02","date_gmt":"2025-02-06T18:40:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news.talkwithrattan.com\/index.php\/2025\/02\/06\/why-are-south-african-hiv-clinics-closing-because-of-trump\/"},"modified":"2025-02-06T18:40:03","modified_gmt":"2025-02-06T18:40:03","slug":"why-are-south-african-hiv-clinics-closing-because-of-trump","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news.talkwithrattan.com\/index.php\/2025\/02\/06\/why-are-south-african-hiv-clinics-closing-because-of-trump\/","title":{"rendered":"Why are South African HIV clinics closing because of Trump?"},"content":{"rendered":"<div style=\"text-align:center\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/i3.wp.com\/e3.365dm.com\/25\/02\/1920x1080\/2372502060269325507_6821457.jpg?20250206162236&amp;ssl=1\" class=\"attachment-post-thumbnail size-post-thumbnail wp-post-image\" alt=\"Why are South African HIV clinics closing because of Trump?\" title=\"Why are South African HIV clinics closing because of Trump?\" \/><\/div>\n<div data-component-name=\"ui-article-body\" data-highlight-intro=\"true\">\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/podcasts.apple.com\/us\/podcast\/sky-news-daily\/id951048357\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">\ud83d\udc49 Listen to Sky News Daily on your podcast app \ud83d\udc48<\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong>Elon Musk and the Trump administration have agreed to shut down USAID, the world&#8217;s largest single donor to international aid programmes, with thousands of staff being withdrawn as Mr Musk says it is &#8220;beyond repair&#8221;.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>The decision follows a wave of government cuts since Mr Trump&#8217;s return to office last month. <\/strong><\/p>\n<p>On the Sky News Daily, Tom Cheshire speaks to Sky&#8217;s Africa correspondent Yousra Elbagir &#8211; reporting from Johannesburg &#8211; where the effects are already being felt, as sexual health clinics are closing and life-saving HIV drugs are no longer available.<\/p>\n<p>Producer: Alex Bishop<br \/>Editor: Philly Beaumont<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<p><br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/news.sky.com\/story\/why-are-south-african-hiv-clinics-closing-because-of-trump-13304238\">Source link <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\ud83d\udc49 Listen to Sky News Daily on your podcast app \ud83d\udc48 Elon Musk and the Trump administration have agreed to shut down USAID, the world&#8217;s largest single donor to international aid programmes, with thousands of staff being withdrawn as Mr Musk says it is &#8220;beyond repair&#8221;. The decision follows a wave of government cuts since [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":233348,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"tdm_status":"","tdm_grid_status":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/e3.365dm.com\/25\/02\/1920x1080\/2372502060269325507_6821457.jpg?20250206162236","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[1863,128275,246,7145,6967,52],"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.talkwithrattan.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/233347"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.talkwithrattan.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.talkwithrattan.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.talkwithrattan.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.talkwithrattan.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=233347"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/news.talkwithrattan.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/233347\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":233349,"href":"https:\/\/news.talkwithrattan.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/233347\/revisions\/233349"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.talkwithrattan.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/233348"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.talkwithrattan.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=233347"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.talkwithrattan.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=233347"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.talkwithrattan.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=233347"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}