Posted on 02/15/2025 3:49:27 AM PST by Oldeconomybuyer
Life for Mike Elvis Tusubira, a motorcycle taxi rider with HIV in Uganda, has been turned upside down since US President Donald Trump halted foreign aid last month.
Not only does the 35-year-old fear for his own survival as he takes life-saving anti-retroviral (ARV) drugs - but he says he will have to split up from his wife as they can no longer have safe sex.
His partner is HIV-negative and relies on PrEP, a medicine that reduces the risk of contracting HIV.
"It means that even my marriage will end, because actually without the preventive measures, she's not going to stay," he told the BBC.
"No condoms, no [anti-HIV] lubricants, no PrEP, nothing. We can't stay in marriage without meeting. It means that I have to stay single."
All the couple's medicines and contraceptives were supplied thanks to funding from the US government's main overseas aid agency USAID.
Since the sudden shutdown, which he heard about on social media, they have not been able to replenish their supplies. His wife has completely run out of PrEP now and they are both afraid that relying just on condoms - they have some left - is too risky.
Trump ordered the 90-day pause on foreign aid on his first day back in office, after which stop-work orders began to be issued to organisations funded by USAID.
(Excerpt) Read more at bbc.com ...
Fear porn from Deep State.
Need to SUE THOSE WHO STOLE trillions of U.S. tax dollars.
Start with Politico, NYT, AP, Reuters...
We also funded the BBC - to put out propaganda like this.
We also funded NGOs to flood Europe with migrants.
British Broadcasting telling us how America needs to pay for this. What else do the Brits want us to open our checkbook for?
Why should I pay for drugs for a 35 year old taxi driver in Uganda.
How about paying for my drugs or cutting my Medicare premiums.
Sorry to be that way - but f@@@ the Ugandans - I want that money.
I feel sorry for the guy, but where in our constitution does it mention the sex lives of Ugandan taxi drivers?
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well, BBC, perhaps your UK should pick up the slack, you know, so the poor diseased Ugandan taxi driver can have sex ... maybe you should publish an article advocating for that, instead of expecting other countries to do all the work ...
We are cucks to be paying for such crap!
Not understanding how it is MY responsibility as an AMERICAN TAXPAYER to fund some UGANDAN guy wanting to have sex with HIS wife.
Maybe Uganda is the problem?
The drugs are available for sale but why buy them when Uncle Sugar will give them away for free.
So Uganda can step up and fix itself...
The BBC has a conflict of interest—since they were on the USAID payroll.
They should recuse themselves from writing this kind of propaganda.
Of course—they are slimy leftists so professional ethics mean nothing to them.
That is one reason why “journalists” have a worse reputation than alley whores on a Friday night.
This British Bull Crap article is actually hilarious. Expecting US tax payers to fund some Ugandan clown with HIV so he can screw his wife. Only someone with the brainpower of AOC or Harris would agree with this nonsense.
Ok, that convinces me. Keep the Deep State and trillions of graft and corruption. Going. Fire DOGE. As long as one person in Africa can’t get laid, we should keep the gold bars flowing.
Have you looked in the penumbra? Drugs for Uganda taxi drivers to have sex is right next to the right to abortion.
Europe?
We funded NGOs to flood TNE USA with migrants.
He chose poorly.
Appeal to Emotion is obvious.
The Anecdotal Fallacy in this case is BBC's effort to pretend that because something happened in one rare exception, it’s true in general.
The Red Herring Fallacy in this case is the dishonesty of the BBC in trying to divert attention away from the general waste of such foreign aid.
Absolutely.
USAID also funded the Wuhan lab and killed millions.
Funded transgenderism around the globe.
America is the greatest source of evil in the world.
Thank God Trump will stop it but need to root out the enemies - foreign and domestic - while we can.
So I have to care about this? tell it to the democrats who supported you and now cant
In the Libtard mind us 130 million private sector workers in America are the slaves for the other 8 billion plus?
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