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In a companion blog, I pointed out that the long-term effect of President Trump’s proposed cuts in PEPFAR funding will be much larger than the estimated one million lives discussed in a recent New York Times article.  If the 20% cut is permanent, and other countries follow the American lead, then up to 16 million people may needlessly die of AIDS-related causes by the year 2030.  Predicting the future is always uncertain, especially when dealing with the medical, social, economic, and political complexities of the AIDS epidemic.  So let me explain where these numbers come from.