Bel Trew
Chief International Correspondent at The Independent
The Independent’s Chief International Correspondent. Foreign reporter of the year 2023. Marie Colvin Award winner. My documentary “The Body in the Woods”👇🏼
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5 days ago |
aol.co.uk | Bel Trew
Leaning in pain against the wall of her one-room hut, Hadja, a mother of three, worries about who will look after her children if she dies. The 27-year-old was unknowingly infected with HIV by her husband before falling pregnant in her village in southern Uganda. Since the US made devastating cuts to its global HIV programmes in January, slashing funding, she has struggled to access her lifesaving medication – drugs that would crucially prevent the transmission of the virus to her baby.
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1 week ago |
independent.co.uk | Bel Trew
U.S. cuts to global HIV programs are severely impacting access to life-saving medication in countries like Uganda and Zimbabwe. Pregnant women like Hadja fear transmitting HIV to their unborn children due to a lack of access to antiretroviral drugs. Others, like James, are experiencing worsening health conditions as their access to medication has been cut off. Clinics are struggling to operate, with reduced staff and dwindling drug supplies, leading to fears of increased HIV transmission.
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1 week ago |
yahoo.com | Rachel Schraer |Alicja Hagopian |Bel Trew |Rebecca Thomas
Donald Trump's slashing of foreign aid has derailed the projected end of the Aids pandemic and could lead to four million extra deaths by 2030, The Independent can reveal. New figures show the number of Aids-related deaths could jump from six million to ten million in the next five years unless funding is reinstated, according to forecasts from the UN Aids agency (UNAIDS).
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1 week ago |
independent.co.uk | Bel Trew
On the groundFrom the pregnant woman who fears HIV will now be transmitted to her child, to the father of four lying in agony on a mattress with no access to drugs. In Uganda and Zimbabwe, Chief International Correspondent Bel Trew finds the US president’s brutal severing of aid – and abrupt halt in medication – is already tearing lives apartLeaning in pain against the wall of her one-room hut, Hadja, a mother-of-three, worries about who will look after her children if she dies.
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1 week ago |
independent.co.uk | Rachel Schraer |Alicja Hagopian |Bel Trew |Rebecca Thomas
In FocusHIV infections and deaths from Aids are set to skyrocket in the next five years if US-funded programs are not reinstated, write Rachel Schraer, Alicja Hagopian, Bel Trew and Rebecca ThomasDonald Trump's slashing of foreign aid has derailed the projected end of the Aids pandemic and could lead to four million extra deaths by 2030, The Independent can reveal.
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