Prince Harry follows in Diana’s footsteps as he joins new Aids campaign The Duke of Sussex is in a new short film to raise awareness of the devastating impact of recent funding cuts The Independent UK · Sep 24, 2025
Duke of Sussex features in film calling for investment to end Aids Funding cuts are affecting countries with high HIV rates by creating shortages of community health workers and data collectors, Unaids said. Evening Standard · Sep 22, 2025
EU regulator approves injectable HIV drug that experts say could help stop transmission The European Medicines Agency has recommended authorizing a twice-yearly injectable drug to prevent HIV The Independent UK · Jul 25, 2025
Millions will die in coming years if US funding for HIV programmes is not replaced, UN warns US cuts could lead to four million AIDS-related deaths by 2029, according to UN officials. Euronews · Jul 10, 2025
US Funding Cuts Could Reverse Decades Of Gains In AIDS Fight: UN The halt to US foreign aid is a "ticking time bomb" that could reverse decades of hard-fought gains in the fight against AIDS, the United Nations warned Thursday. International Business Times · Jul 10, 2025
UN says if US funding for HIV programs is not replaced, millions more will die by 2029 A new U.N. AIDS agency report says the sudden withdrawal of U.S. funding has caused a “systemic shock” to the global effort against AIDS and HIV The Independent UK · Jul 10, 2025
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 · Jul 10, 2025
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 · Jul 4, 2025
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 · Jul 4, 2025
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 · Jun 26, 2025
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 · Jun 20, 2025
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 · Jun 17, 2025
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 The Independent UK · May 28, 2025
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 · May 24, 2025
Euronews · May 6, 2025 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.
The Independent UK · May 6, 2025 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 · Apr 25, 2025 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 · Apr 25, 2025 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 · Apr 17, 2025 ‘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 · Apr 17, 2025 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
The Conversation · Mar 27, 2025 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 · Mar 25, 2025 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 · Mar 24, 2025 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 · Mar 24, 2025 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
The Guardian - UK · Mar 18, 2025 ‘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