Years of American investments in AIDS care have led to the lowest mortality in the disease in more than three decades – but the last six months have seen the support largely cease.
Now the UN is warning that the sudden withdrawal can lead to more than four million AIDS-related deaths and six million more HIV infections by 2029.
The four billion dollars that the US promised to the global HIV effort for 2025 virtually disappeared overnight, when US President Donald Trump ordered that all foreign aid be discontinued.
"The loss of funding has already led to the closure of health and medical care facilities, left thousands of health clinics without staff, interrupted HIV testing efforts and forced organizations to reduce or stop their HIV care", writes the UN program Unaids in a report released on Thursday.
