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High-risk HIV groups facing record levels of criminalisation as countries bring in draconian laws

Curbs on LGBTQ+ rights and a halt to US funding may reverse decades of progress in fight to end Aids epidemic, warns UNAids

The Guardian - UK

Bill Gates Warns US Aid Cuts Could Kill Millions Of Children, End HIV Programs, Leave 75 Million Unvaccinated: 'Devastating' Lancet Study, Gavi, UNAIDS Sound Alarm

Microsoft Corp. co-founder Bill Gates warned on Thursday that U.S. foreign aid cuts could trigger a catastrophic global health crisis, citing new research projecting millions of additional deaths by 2040.

Benzinga

UNAids chief ‘shaken and disgusted’ by US cuts that will mean millions more deaths

Winnie Byanyima tells the Guardian she considered resigning when Donald Trump cancelled Pepfar funding

The Guardian - UK

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HIV transmission in Papua New Guinea at crisis levels

Seven newborn babies are found to have HIV every day in Papua New Guinea despite the availability of preventative drugs.

AAP

US approves breakthrough HIV jab – but aid cuts mean it may not get to millions in need

FDA approval paves the way for the jab to roll out across the world. But with funding being slashed, will it get to the people who need it? Rachel Schraer reports

The Independent UK

South Africa is at the heart of the HIV pandemic. What happens now the money has been cut?

With 12% of the population living with the virus, Trump’s sudden withdrawal of funding stands to undo decades of progress

The Guardian - UK

Trump blames Europe as deadly impact of US cuts on Aids pandemic grows

Trump lashes out at France and Germany amid growing evidence that HIV patients are being denied life-saving drugs. Bel Trew reports

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Elon Musk says Doge didn’t cut HIV programs. But it threw a ‘miracle drug’ into chaos

Global health officials say USAID cuts upended their work, as billionaire claims he will fix any defunding ‘right now’

The Guardian - US

UNAIDS to slash workforce as funding by United States and other donors disappears

UNAIDS had previously warned that unless support to its HIV efforts are restored soon, more than six million people could die in the next four years.

Euronews

UNAIDS to slash workforce by more than half as funding by US and other big donors disappears

The United Nations agency that fights HIV says it plans to slash its workforce by more than half as a result of sweeping funding cuts from longtime donors in the United States, Asia and Europe

The Independent UK

WHO warns Trump cuts put millions of HIV patients at risk

Exclusive: World Health Organisation says shortage of most commonly used Aids drug caused by withdrawal of US foreign aid will sabotage effectiveness of treatment for millions in a ‘recipe for disaster’

The Independent UK

Voices: I’m a doctor specialising in HIV – the world should be very afraid of cuts to Aids funding

COMMENT: Hospitals will see a surge of people with Aids-related conditions that we should no longer see in this age of effective treatment, warns Dr Rageshri Dhairyawan

The Independent UK

‘I can’t protect my unborn baby from HIV’: The stark reality of Trump’s aid cuts

ON THE GROUND: From the pregnant woman who fears HIV will now be transmitted to her child, to the father of four lying in agony on a mattress with no access to drugs. In Uganda and Zimbabwe, chief international correspondent Bel Trew finds the US president’s brutal severing of aid…

The Independent UK

The Aids crisis was set to end by 2030 – now Trump’s cuts will mean 4 million more deaths

IN FOCUS: HIV infections and deaths from Aids are set to skyrocket in the next five years if US-funded programmes are not reinstated, write Rachel Schraer, Alicja Hagopian, Bel Trew and Rebecca Thomas

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The Conversation

Foreign aid cuts could mean 10 million more HIV infections by 2030 – and almost 3 million extra deaths

In January, the Trump administration ordered a broad pause on all US funding for foreign aid.

Euronews

UNAIDS chief urges Donald Trump to make an 'amazing deal' to end HIV

The UNAIDS director also warned that US funding cuts could be dire for global efforts to curb HIV.

Radio France Internationale

AIDS pandemic risks 'resurging globally' amid US funding halt: UN

The world risks returning to the worst days of the global AIDS pandemic following the sudden halt to US foreign aid funding, the UN's top AIDS official said Monday, warning millions would die.

The Independent UK

UNAIDS director proposes that President Trump make an 'amazing deal' to end HIV

The head of the U.N. AIDS agency says the sudden loss of American money has been “devastating” for efforts to stop HIV and will cost many lives of the world’s most vulnerable people

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The Guardian - UK

‘It’s back to drug rationing’: the end of HIV was in sight. Then came the cuts

The abrupt halt to US funding threatens to undo decades of advances, dramatically increasing infections and deaths, but some see an opportunity for Africa to lead the response

The Conversation

Trump is cancelling a Republican project to wipe out Aids – putting millions of lives at risk

Enormous progress has been made in tackling the global HIV epidemics over the past two decades. The number of people dying from HIV-related causes has fallen by 51% since 2010; and the number of annual new infections has fallen from 2.1 million new infections in 2010 to 1.3 million in…

The Independent UK

From staff cuts to aid reductions, UN humanitarian agencies scramble in wake of US funding freeze

Trump administration freezes on U.S. foreign aid have led many United Nations organizations to cut staff, budgets and services in places as diverse as Afghanistan, Sudan, Ukraine and even the United States

Al Jazeera

Africa HIV deaths to mount, as Trump stops funding. Here’s why

In South Africa alone, funding cuts could lead to 500,000 deaths in 10 years, experts warn.

The Guardian - US

Trump administration ends funding for UN program fighting HIV/Aids

Peter Marocco sends letter to UNAids terminating US involvement in serious blow to live-saving health service

Latin Times

Trump's Aid Freeze Could Cause Millions More AIDS Deaths: UN Agency

"It's dramatic in many countries," UNAIDS executive director Winnie Byanyima told AFP. "I need to sound the alarm so that it's very clear that this is a big part (of AIDS relief funding). If it goes away, people are going to die."

International Business Times

Trump's Aid Freeze Could Cause Millions More AIDS Deaths: UN Agency

President Donald Trump's decision to suspend US overseas funding could result in millions more deaths from AIDS, the head of the UN's programme for the illness warned Sunday.

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