Gabrielle Emmanuel

He used to run an HIV clinic with a team of 21 staff members. Now he is the only clinician left with over 6,000 HIV patients.

Experts up to the highest level of people working in HIV-AIDS have said that we are at risk of going back decades in terms of the progress made against this disease. Right. And I assume that's if nothing like USAID gets put back. It's a good question. The U.S. HIV AIDS program is kind of one of the flagship USAID efforts.

Experts up to the highest level of people working in HIV-AIDS have said that we are at risk of going back decades in terms of the progress made against this disease. Right. And I assume that's if nothing like USAID gets put back. It's a good question. The U.S. HIV AIDS program is kind of one of the flagship USAID efforts.

Experts up to the highest level of people working in HIV-AIDS have said that we are at risk of going back decades in terms of the progress made against this disease. Right. And I assume that's if nothing like USAID gets put back. It's a good question. The U.S. HIV AIDS program is kind of one of the flagship USAID efforts.

Some of it's done through USAID, some through CDC, some through the State Department. So pieces of it are still standing, but a lot has crumbled. It's almost like a Jenga tower or something. Like often the whole system collapses when you pull out a few pieces.

Some of it's done through USAID, some through CDC, some through the State Department. So pieces of it are still standing, but a lot has crumbled. It's almost like a Jenga tower or something. Like often the whole system collapses when you pull out a few pieces.

Some of it's done through USAID, some through CDC, some through the State Department. So pieces of it are still standing, but a lot has crumbled. It's almost like a Jenga tower or something. Like often the whole system collapses when you pull out a few pieces.

Absolutely. That is key here. So what makes it so challenging is that there was no warning. There was no transition plan in place, nothing like that. So that has left these huge gaps.

Absolutely. That is key here. So what makes it so challenging is that there was no warning. There was no transition plan in place, nothing like that. So that has left these huge gaps.

Absolutely. That is key here. So what makes it so challenging is that there was no warning. There was no transition plan in place, nothing like that. So that has left these huge gaps.

So I think on a kind of global health scale, this question reminds me of a conversation I had with the Minister of Health in Zambia. He compared the situation to a major drought that Zambia has just gone through. And what he said was in the short term, there was a lot of pain, but in the long term, there were some silver linings. And I think global health-wise, things are changing monumentally.

So I think on a kind of global health scale, this question reminds me of a conversation I had with the Minister of Health in Zambia. He compared the situation to a major drought that Zambia has just gone through. And what he said was in the short term, there was a lot of pain, but in the long term, there were some silver linings. And I think global health-wise, things are changing monumentally.

So I think on a kind of global health scale, this question reminds me of a conversation I had with the Minister of Health in Zambia. He compared the situation to a major drought that Zambia has just gone through. And what he said was in the short term, there was a lot of pain, but in the long term, there were some silver linings. And I think global health-wise, things are changing monumentally.

In the short term, we could see some real... death and devastation as a result. Long term, it's a lot less clear what this means. Will other countries step up? Will countries that had been receiving aid become more self-reliant in a good, sustainable way? It's very hard to tell.

In the short term, we could see some real... death and devastation as a result. Long term, it's a lot less clear what this means. Will other countries step up? Will countries that had been receiving aid become more self-reliant in a good, sustainable way? It's very hard to tell.

In the short term, we could see some real... death and devastation as a result. Long term, it's a lot less clear what this means. Will other countries step up? Will countries that had been receiving aid become more self-reliant in a good, sustainable way? It's very hard to tell.