Comment by Brybry

South Africa has the most people infected with HIV by far. [1] It's a bit crazy to me that it's not listed in their key issues as more than 1 in 10 adults (maybe even 1 in 5) in South Africa have HIV.

HIV-positive gay men are at a higher risk of transmission for obvious reasons [2] and I can think of a lot of good reasons for the US to want to fight infectious diseases in other countries.

I assume the $6.3 million is really $4.3 million here[3], of which $1.9 million was given to 'OUT LGBT WELL-BEING'[4] for 'ENGAGE MEN’S HEALTH: COMPREHENSIVE HEALTH SERVICES FOR MSM IN SOUTH AFRICA ACTIVITY'.

If you look at the health services they provide in [4] it's testing/screening for HIV, it's HIV pre-exposure prophylaxis, etc. In 2021 they had two mobile health teams providing those services to gay men. [5][page 14]

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/HIV_adult_prevalence_rate

[2] https://hivinfo.nih.gov/understanding-hiv/fact-sheets/hiv-an...

[3] https://www.usaspending.gov/award/ASST_NON_72067423FA00008_7...

[4] https://web.archive.org/web/20240715043923/https://out.org.z...

[5] https://out.org.za/wp-content/uploads/2022/08/OUT_Annual_Rep...