The U.S. Senate removed a proposed $400 million funding cut to the country’s flagship HIV/AIDS program, PEPFAR, from President Donald Trump’s multibillion-dollar rescissions package.
The rescission package aims to claw back funds previously approved by Congress.
Sparing this funding is a move that’s being celebrated by the global health community — but it comes in the wake of the Trump administration’s broader battering of HIV programming in the past six months due to a barrage of steps taken to dismantle America’s foreign aid apparatus.