United Nations (UN) warns that the termination of foreign aid by the presidential government United States of America (AS) Donald Trump can reverse “progress for decades” in countermeasures HIV/AIDS.
The UN was mentioned in an annual report on HIV/AIDS, as reported Al Jazera And Associated PressFriday (11/7/2025), that the sudden withdrawal of US funds from the US Presidential Emergency Plan for AIDS (PEPFAR) prevention in the last six months has caused “systemic shocks”.
Pepfar was launched in 2003 by US President George W Bush, and is the biggest commitment ever done by any country that focuses on one disease. UNAIDS calls this program a “savior” for countries with high HIV levels.
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UN officials also warned that if the funding was not replaced, it could result in six million additional HIV infections and triggered four million deaths related to AIDS in 2029.
AIDS Global 2025 report released on Thursday (10/7) said that the investment led by the US for many years in AIDS programs has reduced the number of people who died as a result of the disease to the lowest level in more than three decades, and provided drugs that have saved lives for most of the most vulnerable people in the world.
“HIV programs in low and middle income countries have been shaken by large financial disturbances that suddenly threaten to reverse the progress that has been achieved for years in HIV prevention,” said the annual report of UNAIDS.
“War and conflict, increasingly widening economic gaps, geopolitical shifts, and climate change shocks – that have never happened before in dealing with Global HIV – triggers instability and burdening multilateral cooperation,” said the report.
According to UNAIDS’s annual report, people who are infected with HIV and those who died due to the causes of AIDS are at the lowest level in “more than 30 years”. However, at the end of 2024, the decline in number was “not enough” to end AIDS as a public threat in 2030.
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The US $ 4 billion was promised by the US to the Global HIV response in 2025 disappeared in January, when Trump ordered the suspension of all foreign assistance and decided to close the USAID.
Funding by Trump has a huge impact, considering that Washington is the largest humanitarian assistance donor in the world.
“Sudden withdrawal of the biggest single contributor to the Global HIV response disrupts the treatment and prevention programs worldwide,” the UNAIDS report said.
According to the Unaids report, the loss of US aid funds has “disrupted the supply chain, causing the closure of health facilities, making thousands of health clinics losing staff, hampering prevention programs, disrupting HIV testing efforts, and forcing many community organizations to reduce or stop HIV -related activities”.
See also the video when celebrities in Cannes donated after AIDS funds were cut by Trump
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