Trump’s USAID freeze hits HIV programmes: 'My wife fears sex, I fear death'

Despite a US waiver allowing the resumption of humanitarian help, life-saving services have shut.

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Not only does the 35-year-old fear for his own survival as he takes life-saving anti-retroviral (ARV) drugs - but he says he will have to split up from his wife as they can no longer have safe sex.

His partner is HIV-negative and relies on PrEP, a medicine that reduces the risk of contracting HIV.

"It means that even my marriage will end, because actually without the preventive measures, she's not going to stay," he told the BBC.

"No condoms, no [anti-HIV] lubricants, no PrEP, nothing. We can't stay in marriage without meeting. It means that I have to stay single."

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