Reports Detail Scope, Impact of Global HIV Funding Cuts
U.S. support fell to $4.6 billion, or 74% of donor government funding, as officials froze projects and cut support to UNAIDS.
- Global HIV funding fell 25 percent to $6.2 billion in 2025, marking the largest single-year decline since international scale-up efforts began, according to new reports from UNAIDS and KFF released on Monday.
- The Trump administration's "America First Global Health Strategy" drove the decline by dismantling the U.S. Agency for International Development and canceling numerous global health programs, slashing foreign assistance funding.
- Research from the Foundation for AIDS Research revealed the cuts caused "severe and devastating" disruption, forcing more than 1,700 HIV treatment clinics to close and at least 16,000 health workers to lose jobs.
- At the 26th International AIDS Conference in Rio de Janeiro, experts warned that while domestic HIV financing rose 4% in 2025, it cannot replace the scale of international assistance that was lost.
- World Health Organization Director-General Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus cautioned that ending AIDS by 2030 remains achievable, though 1.2 million new HIV acquisitions and 570,000 deaths in 2025 show global targets are off track.
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AIDS 2026 opens with stark declaration that global targets are not being achieved
AIDS 2026, the 26th International AIDS Conference is underway in Rio de Janeiro and it has begun with a stark warning about how funding US funding cuts have had a major impact on the global response and how international goals are not being met. Funding for the global HIV response plunged in 2025 – entirely due to a steep decline in US support – putting decades of progress at risk, according to reports from UNAIDS and KFF released at the opening…
Global HIV funding suffers biggest decline in decades as US cuts threaten progress, UNAIDS warns
UNAIDS and KFF, an independent US-based health policy research organisation, attributed the decline almost entirely to a sharp reduction in financial support from the United States, following funding delays and the cancellation of several global health programmes. The post Global HIV funding suffers biggest decline in decades as US cuts threaten progress, UNAIDS warns appeared first on Premium Times Nigeria.
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