Mike Reid, who served as chief science officer for the President's Emergency Plan for AIDS Relief, known as PEPFAR, has quit the position because the State Department is considering withholding assistance from people with HIV in Zambia to push the country into signing a favorable ⁠critical-minerals deal with the U.S. (hand to ear as if getting an update) I’m now hearing: the United States is the bad guys.

https://www.yahoo.com/news/articles/expert-quits-us-hiv-role-223533939.html

https://reimaginingglobalhealth.substack.com/p/stepping-away

#satire #USpol #PEPFAR #Zambia #BadGuys