More than 1,700 HIV treatment clinics and service sites have closed around the world and at least 16,000 health workers have lost their jobs after sweeping aid cuts by Donald Trump disrupted the world’s largest AIDS/HIV prevention programme, despite a US pledge to protect lifesaving care.
The cuts have caused “severe and devastating” disruption to dozens of countries around the world, according to new research – with experts warning that the cuts and wider changes to US policy risk reversing decades of progress in the fight to end the global AIDS epidemic by 2030.
