The State Department said the country had failed to address the president’s concerns about treatment of its white citizens.
POLITICO story
The Trump administration has decided to start phasing out HIV funding for South Africa following the country’s “failure to make demonstrable progress on policy requests by the administration,” a State Department official told POLITICO on Thursday (18 June).
The official, who agreed to discuss the decision only if POLITICO did not use their name, said the decision to “initiate a phased drawdown of PEPFAR programming in South Africa” is in line with President Donald Trump’s February 2025 executive order accusing South Africa of discriminating against its white Afrikaner minority and directing U.S. agencies to stop providing aid to the country unless it changes its policies.
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SEE ALSO:
- South African Government News Agency: Plans in place to minimise impact of potential funding withdrawal
Source : POLITICO
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