Death Sentence: The Real Cost of Trump’s Aid Cuts on HIV

The Independent’s Bel Trew travelled to Uganda and Zimbabwe with filmmaker Mags Gavan, where people are dying because they can’t access medication and pregnant women fear infecting their babies. Now UK and European funding is also at risk. The world had been on track to end the AIDS pandemic by 2030 – because of Trump’s aid cuts, instead the death toll is set to triple by the decade’s end. In this short film, Trew interviews a wide range of HIV/Aids patients, from children who’ve lost their parents to volunteer health workers trying to work out how to weather the storm as medication dries up.