Trump's Foreign Aid Freeze: A Tuberculosis Time Bomb?
2025-04-06
The Trump administration's January 2025 freeze on foreign aid, implemented by Elon Musk's Department of Government Efficiency, has jeopardized global tuberculosis control. John Green's new book, *Everything is Tuberculosis*, explores the disease's history and its connection to societal biases. Historically romanticized, TB now devastates impoverished communities. The aid freeze, coupled with battles over TB drug patents, highlights medical inequities and threatens a resurgence of this preventable disease, endangering millions worldwide.
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