US EditionCuts to HIV Funding 'Most Significant Setback in Decades': UN
UNAIDS warns funding cuts have closed clinics and halted prevention programs, risking 4 million additional HIV infections globally by 2030, with vulnerable groups hardest hit.
- On Nov 25, UNAIDS published a report saying people living with HIV have died due to service disruptions, while millions lost access to prevention tools.
- Funding gaps driven by a US funding pause and shifting donor priorities have hollowed out prevention efforts despite some programmes resuming with PEPFAR, after the United States halted about 75 per cent of HIV funding earlier in 2025.
- Specialist programmes for gay men, trans communities, and sex workers — who accounted for half of new HIV infections in 2024 — have been particularly affected by funding cuts, with an estimated 2.5 million people losing access to PrEP this year.
- UNAIDS projects 4 million more people with HIV by 2030 as nearly half of women and adolescent girls surveyed by ATHENA Network and UNAIDS reported service disruptions.
- Winnie Byanyima warned that lenacapavir risks being inaccessible despite being a `miracle` that could `drive down the infections to zero`, while twenty-six countries boost domestic spending and Mozambique saw antiretroviral treatment fall by around 40 per cent this year.
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For Aids, declining funding threatens prevention and access to treatment, compromising the goal of ending HIV by 2030.
In front of the press in Geneva on Tuesday, 25 November, the Executive Director of ONUSIDA expressed concern about the collapse of HIV prevention services, after a year of cuts in international funding.
People living with HIV have died from service disruptions caused by significant funding cuts, while millions of people at risk of HIV have lost access to prevention tools, according to a new UNAIDS report released on Tuesday. "The persistent funding shortfalls and dangerous risks facing the global HIV response are having a profound and lasting impact on the health and well-being of millions of people around the world," says the UN agency's repor…
According to Uno, cuts in funding from the US and other countries could lead to millions of additional HIV infections. According to a UNAIDS report, there are significantly fewer drugs in some poor countries.
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