{"id":188948,"date":"2025-01-18T16:23:17","date_gmt":"2025-01-18T14:23:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/southern-africa\/mozambique\/africa-smith-calls-for-full-congressional-investigation-of-pepfar-violation-of-the-helms-amendment\/"},"modified":"2025-01-18T16:23:17","modified_gmt":"2025-01-18T14:23:17","slug":"africa-smith-calls-for-full-congressional-investigation-of-pepfar-violation-of-the-helms-amendment","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/southern-africa\/mozambique\/africa-smith-calls-for-full-congressional-investigation-of-pepfar-violation-of-the-helms-amendment\/","title":{"rendered":"Africa: Smith Calls for Full Congressional Investigation of PEPFAR Violation of the Helms Amendment"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"10\">Washington, DC \u2014 <em>US taxpayer funding abortions in Mozambique &#8216;tip of the iceberg&#8217;<\/em><\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"65\">Congressman Chris Smith &#8211; Chairman of the House Foreign Affairs Subcommittee on Africa and Global Health Security and Diplomacy Bureau &#8211; today promised a congressional investigation in response to reports that the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) has <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/chrissmith.house.gov\/UploadedFiles\/Fox_News_article_on_Biden_Admin_Hijacking_PEPFAR_for_Abortion_June_23_2023.pdf\" rel=\"noopener\">violated the Helms Amendment <\/a>by illegally using U.S. taxpayer dollars from the President&#8217;s Emergency Plan for AIDS Relief (PEPFAR) to pay for abortions&#8230;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/allafrica.com\/stories\/202501170476.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Read more on AllAfrica.com<\/a><br \/>\n<br \/>South Africa Today Africa \u2013 Southern Africa <a title=\"Mozambique\" href=\"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/category\/southern-africa\/mozambique\/\">Mozambique<\/a> News<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Washington, DC \u2014 US taxpayer funding abortions in Mozambique &#8216;tip of the iceberg&#8217; Congressman Chris Smith &#8211; Chairman of the House Foreign Affairs Subcommittee on Africa and Global Health Security and Diplomacy Bureau &#8211; today promised a congressional investigation in response to reports that the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) has violated the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":11,"featured_media":188949,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"tdm_status":"","tdm_grid_status":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cdn08.allafrica.com\/static\/images\/structure\/aa-logo-rgba-no-text-square.png","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[654],"tags":[258,256,11010,6137,14294,10170,50421,6834,682,257,35857,10555,254,7116],"class_list":["post-188948","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-mozambique","tag-africa","tag-africa-news","tag-amendment","tag-calls","tag-congressional","tag-full","tag-helms","tag-investigation","tag-mozambique-news","tag-news","tag-pepfar","tag-smith","tag-south-africa-today","tag-violation"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cdn08.allafrica.com\/static\/images\/structure\/aa-logo-rgba-no-text-square.png","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/188948","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/11"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=188948"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/188948\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/188949"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=188948"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=188948"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=188948"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}