Kenya HIV patients live in fear as US aid freeze strand drugs in warehouse

Kenya HIV patients live in fear as US aid freeze strands drugs in warehouse

The health clinic where Alice Okwirry collects her HIV medication in Kenya's capital Nairobi has been rationing supplies of antiretrovirals to one-month refills since the U.S. government froze foreign aid.

USAID: Goodbye to All That?

In South Africa and Kenya, HIV clinics have shuttered, depriving people of life-saving medication. In Uganda, where treatment has also halted, aid workers estimate that forty newborns contract the virus every day. In Yemen, Norwegian People’s Aid has paused demining activities. In Thailand, the International Rescue Committee has turned refugees from Myanmar away from its […]

Kenya HIV patients left stranded by US aid freeze

$34m worth of medicine and equipment stuck in Kenya warehouse despite state department’s exemption of funding for HIV treatment

Kenya HIV patients live in fear as US aid freeze strand drugs in warehouse

By Aaron Ross, Tim Cocks and Vivianne Wandera

"A funding disruption will have a direct impact on the survival of people living with HIV," warns Susan Kasedde, the DRC director of UNAIDS, the UN program coordinating the fight against the HIV/AIDS pandemic, in an interview with UN Info. A still-growing epidemic The DRC currently has approximately 520,000 […]

Rallying for HIV Prevention Amid Policy Attacks

.grey-box { background-color: #f7f5f4; padding: 20px 20px; } .brown { color: #3f2220; } “HIV is an incredibly diverse pandemic. Getting three quarters of all people living with HIV on this planet access to treatment is the greatest achievement of equity in global health. We all did that together. We can’t give it up and we are not going to.” – Chris Beyrer, CROI 2025 plenary session Defeating HIV has demanded heroics since the first re…