Re: USA Africa Dialogue Series - LGBTQ and USAID

The sexuality politics of USAID is not the reason why the budget is being cut. The opposition to the supply of free medication to HIV/AIDS patients which made up more of the budget than rainbow flags would cost, was not only opposed by the Clinton White House, but 40 big pharmaceutical firms were allowed to sue Mandela to force South Africa to buy the expensive patented drugs rather than the cheaper generic versions from India. It was after George W. Bush won that Condoleeza Rice and Colin Powel advised him to settle the law suits by starting a Presidential initiative on HIV/AIDS to buy the drugs and give them as foreign aid to poor countries and also to poor patients who could not afford them in the US. That tripled US foreign aid to Africa over night but it was also aid to the US pharmaceutical companies. https://magazine.scienceforthepeople.org/online/generic-drugs-vaccine-lawsuit/

The lesson in the dismantling of USAID is that Africans will have to take responsibility for our needs. For instance, Africa should stop waiting for drugs from abroad, we should fund research and development into indigenous knowledge systems to discover effective original cures of our own that we can share with needy patients worldwide. Meanwhile, Africans should not be bullied by Trump to continue oppressing law-abiding citizens simply based on who they consensually love. We have bigger problems than policing the love life of fellow Africans.

Biko

On Tuesday 8 April 2025 at 21:07:23 GMT-4, Gloria Emeagwali <gloria.emeagwali@gmail.com> wrote:

There is a lot of truth in this article.I would add that some voters decamped and went to Trump because of this. Democrats should correct this weakness and stay out of "the other room."

Other reasons for the demise

 of US Aid

1. The US is broke.

2. People overseas are dispensable to the political elite

3. The rush to shrink govt and get money for tax cuts meant that every program was on the chopping block

A lot of USAID was  into covert

activities but Republicans didn't 

have a problem with that one.

https://www.linkedin.com/in/gloria-emeagwali-9628188

On Apr 8, 2025, at 16:09, Bunmi fatoye-matory <bunmifm@gmail.com> wrote:



This writer opines that conservatives' ire about sexual politics in foreign affairs led to the destruction of USAID.

https://www.nytimes.com/2025/04/07/opinion/usaid-foreign-aid-gay-trans.html

Bunmi

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