This New Drug Could Help End the HIV Epidemic—but US Funding Cuts Are Killing Its Rollout
Lenacapavir, a twice yearly injection that prevents HIV transmission, was named the breakthrough medicine of 2024. But without US foreign aid dollars, its delivery to millions worldwide is under ...
Trump administration faces new lawsuit from LGBTQ, health nonprofits
Several LGBTQ rights organizations sued the Trump administration on Thursday, alleging that the president's executive orders ...
U.S. aid freeze puts HIV-positive orphans in Kenya and their lifesaving drugs at risk
The Trump administration's global aid freeze is threatening the lives of HIV-positive orphans at Nyumbani Children’s Home in Nairobi.
The National Institute of Standards and Technology Braces for Mass Firings
Approximately 500 NIST staffers, including at least three lab directors, are expected to lose their jobs at the standards ...
Trump's foreign aid freeze halted a crucial program fighting HIV in Africa. Here's what's at stake
The freeze on U.S. foreign aid ordered by President Donald Trump has effectively halted one of the world's most successful ...
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How the shift in US funding is threatening both the lives of people affected by HIV and the community groups supporting them
In a joint survey by Aidsfonds, GNP+ and the Robert Carr Fund 22% of organizations reported increased experiences of discrimination, including reports of discrimination within healthcare settings, ...
Q&A: Researchers discuss stigma, unequal access and aging population, all challenges to HIV care and prevention
Despite breakthroughs in HIV treatment and prevention worldwide, critical challenges such as stigma, unequal access and ...
How Trump’s policies could reverse decades of progress in Latin America’s HIV response
If PEPFAR is not reauthorized for the next four years, and without other resources for the HIV response, there would be 6.3 ...
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Funds for fight against HIV/AIDS paused in Trump aid freeze
“It’s bad, bad,” said one State Department official who works on the HIV program, which is called the President’s Emergency Plan for AIDS Relief, or PEPFAR. The official, who, like ...
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Treatment for HIV, AIDS in Haiti hit by U.S. foreign aid halt despite waivers from Rubio
When growing gang violence and the kidnappings of healthcare workers forced Haiti’s leading organization in the treatment of HIV and AIDS-related illnesses to relocate operations from its main ...
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Urgent solutions needed as PEPFAR funding freeze threatens HIV/AIDS treatment in SA
TAC faces retrenchment of nearly 200 people ... He said the 17% PEPFAR contribution to the South African HIV/AIDS programme budget is not insignificant. “Moreover, even if temporary, the ...