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Both parents were HIV positive but had been able to survive because of the daily medications they took to prevent the virus from progressing. When the U.S. overhauled foreign aid at the start of President Trump’s second term, there were major cuts to global health — and disruptions to the U.S.'s flagship efforts to combat HIV/AIDS globally called PEPFAR or the U.S. President’s Emergency Plan for AIDS Relief.

The boys say that, in the overhaul, their parents could no longer get their HIV medications as the program that delivered medication to their remote area suddenly stopped. It took just about a year for both parents to succumb to the virus.

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They don’t have to move their mattresses, he explains, because they don’t have any — the boys sold them when they needed money. Instead, they sleep on a bamboo mat on the floor and share a blanket

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