A UN official has spoken of her fear that aid cuts from the US, UK and other nations could push the world into a new HIV/Aids epidemic – and that people will not care.
Speaking at a screening for Independent TV’s powerful new documentary Hunted: Kidnapped, blackmailed and tortured for being LGBTQ+ at ICA London, Christine Stegling, director of management and partnerships at UNAIDS, which leads the global effort to end Aids, said that this is the danger of the current political climate, where cuts to services are becoming normalised and capacity to test and treat is being hit.
