South Africa: U.S. Funding Cuts Have Crippled Our HIV Work - What's Being Lost

HIV patients in Ukraine face treatment ‘apocalypse’ as US funds in limbo

Ukraine relies on the U.S. to fund HIV services during the war. The Trump administration is still mulling axing its support.

South Africa: U.S. Funding Cuts Have Crippled Our HIV Work - What's Being Lost

Analysis - The Trump administration's cuts to funding for scientific research have left many scientists reeling and very worried. At the National Institutes of Health in the US, which has an annual budget of US$47 billion to support medical research both in the US and around the world, nearly 800 grants have been terminated. The administration is considering cutting the overall budget of the National Institutes of Health by 40%.

US funding cuts have crippled our HIV work. What's being lost?

The Trump administration's cuts to funding for scientific research have left many scientists reeling and very worried. At the National Institutes of Health in the US, which has an annual budget of US$47 billion to support medical research both in the US and around the world, nearly 800 grants have been terminated. The administration is considering cutting the overall budget of the National Institutes of Health by 40%.

Researcher warns of surge in HIV infections amid US funding cuts - SABC News - Breaking news, special reports, world, business, sport coverage of all South African current events. Africa's news leader.

Clinician researcher at Wits University Professor Francois Venter has warned of a surge in HIV infections, due to the US government’s withdrawal of funding to PEPFAR and NIH funded clinics. In January, US President Donald Trump issued an executive order to stop foreign aid affecting USAID and PEPFAR funded clinics globally. Venter has attributed the increase in HIV infections to government’s failure to restore HIV healthcare following the withdr…

Exclusive: HIV patient testing falls in South Africa after US aid cuts, data shows

By Nellie Peyton Testing and monitoring of HIV patients across South Africa have fallen since the United States cut aid that funded health workers and clinics, with pregnant women, infants and youth the most affected, previously unpublished government data shows. South Africa has the world’s highest burden of HIV, with about 8 million people – one in five adults – living with the virus. The United States was funding 17% of the country’s HIV budg…

Reductions in US funding have significantly reduced HIV testing in South Africa, especially among pregnant women, infants and young people.