The United States (US) government has reduced the President's Emergency Plan for AIDS Relief Funds (PEPFAR) from a 5-year-plan to a 1-year-plan. Downscaling from the normal 5 year deal, Republican lawmakers demanded that the program should ban any nongovernmental organisations that receive PEPFAR funding from promoting or providing abortion services. “PEPFAR has never been an abortion program, and will never be because the 1973 Helms amendment which restricts U.S. foreign assistance programs from funding abortion abroad, "John Nkengasong, the program’s director stated. The delays constrained PEPFAR officials from undertaking any activities due to the unavailability of funds, resorting to periodic funding offered on a rolling one-year basis. Kenya is a huge benefactor of the funding in the fight against HIV/AIDS and it has pushed the country towards reaching the United Nations 2025 goal.
