The US's decision to halt most foreign aid this year has been a “systemic shock” to the fight against AIDS, according to officials from the United Nations who said there could be more than four million AIDS-related deaths and six million more HIV infections by 2029 if the US funding is not replaced.
Years of US-led investment into AIDS programmes has reduced the number of people killed by the disease to the lowest levels seen in more than three decades, and provided life-saving medicines for some of the world’s most vulnerable.
