Save PEPFAR

Protest with us at the Foggy Bottom metro stop in Washington DC, March 7th 2025, to save the lives of 700 kids every day.

[Steven Pinker @sapinker]

PEPFAR is one of USA's proudest achievements, having saved millions of lives of the world's poorest people at low cost. Pausing this bipartisan jewel to save a rounding error in the budget is depraved. Call your Senator. @SavePEPFARNow #PEPFARSavesBabies https://t.co/DCBaoQARs8

[United Nations Geneva @UNGeneva]

Susan Kasedde, @UnaidsDRC Country Director, explains the widespread toll of the U.S. President’s Emergency Plan for AIDS Relief (#PEPFAR) funding freeze on the AIDS response in the Democratic Republic of the Congo.

@UNAIDS

[Phil Vischer @philvischer]

Estimated savings from killing PEPFAR: 0.08% of the federal budget.
Estimated impact: 1 million unnecessary deaths per year. 1400 additional babies born with AIDS... every day.

https://t.co/MahOrSATBd

[Save PEPFAR @SavePEPFARNow]

Jenny, mom of Esther (11 months), on why she's protesting with us: "If I lost my baby because the people who’d been giving her lifesaving medication suddenly took it away, I would never forgive them."

Call your senator, tell them #PEPFARSavesBabies and we want it back!

[Save PEPFAR @SavePEPFARNow]

Thanks to every parent who helped out our protest by dressing their child in our onesies. And thank you to every parent who called their senator because no innocent child anywhere should die of HIV. #PEPFARSavesBabies

[Save PEPFAR @SavePEPFARNow]

It's the day after the protest, but we need to keep the pressure up! Have you called your senator yet?

#SavePEPFARNow #PEPFARSavesBabies

[hamiltonianurst @hamiltonianurst]

https://t.co/V7UQPUGfb5

The PEPFAR Rally in Foggy Bottom,
Washington DC, March 7, 2025

#PEPFAR
@SavePEPFARNow @LeahLibresco

[Save PEPFAR @SavePEPFARNow]

@NicholasKM2001 @LeahLibresco @KelseyTuoc There's also this article (not ours): https://t.co/WKymRTiIR8

[Leah Libresco Sargeant @LeahLibresco]

I left my 9mo home with a snuffly nose when I went to the @SavePEPFARNow rally today.

I didn’t have any doubt he’d be alive when I got home

But, every day without PEPFAR, 1400 moms give birth to HIV+ babies, who could die from a minor cold.

[Gates Cambridge @Gates_Cambridge]

If #Pepfar stops aid permanently, @UNAIDS estimates that by 2029 there will be an additional 6.3m Aids-related deaths per year, 3m Aids-related orphans and 8.7m new infections in adults [1.3m last year], meaning all progress made in the last 25 yrs will be lost #GatesCambridge25

[Monastic Methodist Mom @PomegranateMom]

I walked through Foggy Bottom every day one summer in college to work at a homelessness ministry. Glad to see this place again via livestream… devastated at the need for the rally and so glad it’s happening. #PEPFAR saves lives! @VP @POTUS
Thank you @LeahLibresco!

[Jill Dougherty @jillrussia]

Rally outside of George Washington University hospital against cuts to #PEPFAR , created by George W Bush. It has saved roughly 25 million lives, including children, from #HIV AIDS. Most importantly, it prevents moms from passing HIV to their unborn babies.

[Dan Elton @moreisdifferent]

#PEPFAR saves babies!!

[Save PEPFAR @SavePEPFARNow]

@elonmusk @marcorubio #PEPFARSavesBabies - will you please reverse the destruction of PEPFAR before any more kids get HIV?

[dave kasten @David_Kasten]

The @SavePEPFARNow protest at the @StateDept

[Save PEPFAR @SavePEPFARNow]

We want to see your signs! And don't forget to tag #SavePEPFARNow!

[Kathryn Jean Lopez @kathrynlopez]

If you are at the PEPFAR rally, do share images/video

[Rishi @magorishi]

Live broadcast of the rally! Huge credit to Leah and all the speakers. Apologies for my poor camerawork. Clips from the rally to come soon at @SavePEPFARNow. #SavePEPFARNow

[Save PEPFAR @SavePEPFARNow]

The protest is now moving to the State Department. If you're just joining us now, you'll find us there! #SavePEPFARNow #PEPFARSavesBabies

[Kathryn Jean Lopez @kathrynlopez]

We think PEPFAR should be a special priority of the pro-life movement. Its treatments empower mothers to protect their unborn children and provide hope that the births of these children will be moments of joy, not despair. https://t.co/yZrwlrQuTY @LeahLibresco @matthew_loftus @HSRdirector @nytopinion @SavePEPFARNow

[Kathryn Jean Lopez @kathrynlopez]

PEPFAR is something we are going to eventually hand off, but we have to finish the job first -- @LeahLibresco @SavePEPFARNow