Mozambican girls listen to a sexual education briefing. Fifteen percent of young women in the country have HIV, and at least 90 HIV and family planning clinics in the country closed in 2017.GIANLUIGI GUERCIA/AFP/GETTY IMAGES
The Trump administration’s disregard for women’s rights is reflected in its attempt to remove the Affordable Care Act’s mandate that insurers cover birth control and its expansion of the “global gag rule” banning U.S. funding to international organizations that so much as discuss abortion. The latter policy is now set to prevent women across the globe from receiving a powerful new HIV medication when it is made available, while men will have unfettered access to it. Read More
