U.S. government-funded HIV medicines delivery should — in theory — continue in Kenya because of a limited waiver to the Trump administration’s global stop work order for the U.S. Agency for International Development’s programming. This waiver allows for “urgent life-saving HIV treatment services” under the U.S. President’s Emergency Plan for AIDS Relief, or PEPFAR.
But, in reality, work is stalling because funds aren’t flowing to a key partner organization.
Mission for Essential Drugs & Supplies Centres, or MEDs, the Christian nonprofit that USAID contracts for limited procurement, warehousing, and distribution, doesn’t have the funds to move forward with programming.