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The Guardian - UK
The Guardian - UK
World
Kat Lay, Global health correspondent

Aid cuts have shaken HIV/Aids care to its core – and will mean millions more infections ahead

The hands of an African woman in a pink dress holding jars of tablets
A Zimbabwean patient with HIV drugs she received through foreign aid. International health funding in 2025 is likely to be up to 40% lower than two years ago. Photograph: A Ufumeli/AP

In Mozambique, a teenage rape victim sought care at a health clinic only to find it closed. In Zimbabwe, Aids-related deaths have risen for the first time in five years. In Ethiopia and the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC), patients with suspected HIV went undiagnosed due to test-kit stocks running out.

Stories of the devastating impact of US, British and wider European aid cuts on the fight against HIV – particularly in sub-Saharan Africa – continue to mount as 2025 comes to an end, and are set out in a series of reports released in the past week.

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