There could be 2,000 new HIV infections a day across the world and a ten-fold increase in related deaths if funding frozen by the United States is not restored or replaced, the United Nations AIDS agency said on Monday.
Since the dismantling of the United States Agency for International Development (USaid) last month, many humanitarian NGOs in South-East Asia have been in disarray, trying to find new funding, but the task is expected to be very difficult.