US government policy says it refuses to care for women, threatening the progress of the HIV response

The global meeting of the AIDS community in Amsterdam, the Netherlands, cited a US government policy as detrimental to women and a threat to the HIV response.

The researchers made a presentation at 22 ^nd AIDS Conference showing what they describe as "alarming evidence of the negative impacts of the US Government's 'Mexico City Policy', also known as the name of "global gag rule".

The Trump-Pence Convention District said: "The Global Gag Trag-Pence Rule is an ideological crusade that denies vital care to women around the world and threatens decades of progress in the global response to HIV" she added. health care for women and children should not be used as a pawn to appease right-wing extremists. "

The rule was introduced by President Ronald Reagan and reinstated last year by President Donald Trump.The policy denies US badistance to organizations that provide information, referrals or related services to legal abortion or plea for abortion, even with their own money.

A press release from the organizers indicates that past iterations of the policy only applied to

" Now, under the Trump administration, it applies to almost all of the world's bilateral badistance in health, including the President's Emergency Plan for AIDS Relief (PEPFAR). ), "the paper added.

" The scope of the global gag rule has been significantly expanded and has the potential to roll back HIV, "Anton Pozniak, president-elect of the International AIDS Society and executive director of the International AIDS Society. l "The evidence is clear: we need better integration of badual and reproductive health services and HIV, not policies that complicate access to HIV care. health for people, "he added.

The AIDS Conference brings together 15,000 delegates made up of researchers, doctors, activists, people living with HIV, and governments around the world

By Emmanuel K. Dogbevi, Amsterdam, The Netherlands [19659010] Copyright © 2018 by Creative Imaginations Publicity
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