JOHANNESBURG - Aid organisations across the globe continue to feel the wrath of the Trump administration's foreign aid cuts.
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Apart from leaving HIV patients in dire straits, the Trump administration's decision to cut Pepfar and USAID funding is sending aid workers to the unemployment queues.
Dr. Natasha Davis is an HIV Specialist in Clinical Care at Anova Health Institute.
It's one of the largest Pepfar implementors in the country and she explained the impact this situation would have on employees as well as the community.
Dr Davis said, "The partners who are funded by the CDC are still able to work but all of the partners who are funded by USAID have been terminated."
"It's around 7,000 or 8,000 individuals, as I understand it," she said.
"The employees at Anova ranged from lower cadres of community healthcare workers, linkage officers, and lay counsellors were really such a critical part of our workforce. They were the ones who built relationships with people living with HIV and help them to test, link for services, and to stay in care so that cadre doesn't really exist in the Department of Health and a lot of that work was being done by implementing partners who were funded by the US," she explained.
"So the loss of those individuals is really hard. And obviously for them, they're quite low-level income earners so it's also a big impact for their families' and extended family in terms of their financial security."