India's first transgender clinics in Hyderabad shut after Donald Trump's USAID fund freeze

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According to the Reuters report, the closed Mitr clinics are run mostly by the doctors, counsellors and other workers from the transgender community

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While reacting to the development, Elon Musk, who co-chairs the Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE), said,"That’s what American tax dollars were funding

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Each of them needed up to ₹30 lakh a year to run and employed about eight people. A source told Reuters they were looking for alternate sources of funding, public or private.

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Organisers of the clinics, however, have got a waiver from USAID to keep running certain life-saving activities, including providing antiretroviral medication to HIV-infected people, the report added. Up to 10% of all clinic clients are infected by HIV, one of the sources said.

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External Affairs Minister S Jaishankar on Saturday said the information put out by the Trump administration is "concerning" and that the government is looking into it.

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