{"id":28936,"date":"2025-11-26T03:04:07","date_gmt":"2025-11-26T03:04:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ipp-news.com\/?p=28936"},"modified":"2025-11-26T03:04:07","modified_gmt":"2025-11-26T03:04:07","slug":"un-calls-hiv-funding-cuts-most-significant-setback-in-decades","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ipp-news.com\/?p=28936","title":{"rendered":"UN calls HIV funding cuts \u2018most significant setback in decades\u2019"},"content":{"rendered":"
Dramatic international funding cuts have thrown the global HIV response into turmoil, the United Nations said Tuesday, warning that new infections could surge.<\/p>\n

The UNAIDS agency cautioned that, since the United States and others abruptly slashed funding this year, the ecosystem sustaining HIV treatment and prevention in dozens of countries has been \u201cshaken to its core\u201d.<\/p>\n

\u201cClinics closed without warning, thousands of health workers faced job losses or lost salaries and life saving, testing, treatment and prevention services experienced widespread and continuing disruption,\u201d UNAIDS executive director Winnie Byanyima told reporters in Geneva.<\/p>\n

Presenting a new report, she described it as the \u201cmost significant setback in decades\u201d.<\/p>\n

Byanyima pointed to \u201cthe abrupt pause by the United States\u201d \u2014\u00a0previously the biggest funder of the global HIV response \u2014\u00a0after US President Donald Trump returned to the White House at the start of the year.<\/p>\n

But she highlighted that other major donors had also significantly cut their foreign aid spending.<\/p>\n

\u201cThe cuts are dramatic across the board,\u201d she lamented, warning of \u201cdevastating consequences\u201d.<\/p>\n

630,000 AIDS-related deaths
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In its report, UNAIDS said that in 2024 around 1.3 million people contracted the disease.<\/p>\n

That was 40 percent lower than in 2010, but remained more than three times higher than needed to reach the UN\u2019s goal of ending AIDS as a public health threat by 2030.<\/p>\n

Around 630,000 people died from AIDS-related illnesses last year, down 54 percent since 2010, and 15 percent since 2020, the report said ahead of World AIDS Day next Monday.<\/p>\n

But Byanyima warned Tuesday that the deep funding crisis had \u201cexposed the fragility of the progress we fought so hard to achieve\u201d.<\/p>\n

Even before the crisis, the global AIDS response was severely underfunded, with access to $18.7 billion in 2024 \u2014\u00a017 percent below what was needed, Byanyima said.
\nAlready last year, some 9.2 million of the over 40 million people living with HIV around the world were not receiving treatment, Tuesday\u2019s report showed.<\/p>\n

And Byanyima said that in 13 countries, the number of people starting on treatment had actually declined compared to last year.<\/p>\n

She stressed though that a lot of effort had gone into ensuring that those living with HIV could continue accessing their treatment, and that such services now were \u201csomewhat stabilised\u201d.<\/p>\n

But she voiced deep concern about a \u201ccollapse\u201d in HIV prevention services, which were already under strain. If left unaddressed, this risked resulting in \u201c3.3 million additional new infections\u201d by 2030, she warned.\u00a0<\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Dramatic international funding cuts have thrown the global HIV response into turmoil, the United Nations said Tuesday, warning that new infections could surge. The UNAIDS agency cautioned that, since the United States and others abruptly slashed funding this year, the ecosystem sustaining HIV treatment and prevention in dozens of countries has been \u201cshaken to its […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-28936","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-english-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ipp-news.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28936","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ipp-news.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ipp-news.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ipp-news.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ipp-news.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=28936"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/ipp-news.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28936\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ipp-news.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=28936"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ipp-news.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=28936"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ipp-news.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=28936"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}