About this Project
On January 24, 2025, U.S. President Donald Trump halted all U.S. foreign aid, including funding for HIV services. This threw a global AIDS response built over more than two decades into immediate disarray. The administration has continued to sow chaos in the weeks and months since, allowing some services to resume, while erasing others completely.
This abrupt and ongoing disruption of HIV services is a betrayal, not just of the many millions of people whose lives depend on these programs, but of the many millions more who helped create and sustain this response. Forsaken tells their stories.
Forsaken is a living archive. It is built around conversations with people from the countries that have partnered with the United States over more than two decades to construct a global network of HIV programs.
Through their stories, Forsaken documents how the Trump administration is disrupting an unprecedented effort that has saved millions of lives. It is an attempt to hold this reality up against attempts to elide or misrepresent the true impact of Washington’s actions.
And Forsaken reports on the new future people are beginning to envision as they continue to battle HIV, now without the promise of U.S. support.
Forsaken is an independent project made possible by the support of the Alicia Patterson Foundation.
ABOUT ANDREW GREEN
Andrew has been reporting on global health for more than a decade. An American journalist now living in Berlin, he was previously based in sub-Saharan Africa for five years. This included a stint as Voice of America’s South Sudan bureau chief. He appears regularly on the BBC’s Health Check and is one of the authors of Devex’s weekly global health-focused CheckUp newsletter.
A Kentucky native, Andrew is a graduate of Northwestern University and the recipient of a Fulbright Fellowship to explore the development of Zambia’s independent media. He has also received reporting grants from the International Reporting Project, the Fund for Investigative Journalism and New America.
