We can’t win the fight to end HIV if we cut funding and access to medication

South Africa: Small Win for Activists, But South Africa's HIV Projects Won't Get Reopened

The $400-million that the United States (US) Congress  removed from a list of programmes from which the Trump administration wants to cut funds, doesn't cancel  the cuts to global HIV and TB programmes made in February . HIV projects that have closed in South Africa, which were formerly funded by the US government, won't restart as a result of this decision.

Small win for activists, but SA’s HIV projects won’t reopen – The Mail & Guardian

The $400 million the United States Congress removed from a list of programmes from which the Trump administration will now take back previously approved but unspent funds doesn’t mean the cuts to global HIV and TB programmes in February, including those in South Africa, are now reversed.  HIV projects that have closed in South Africa, which were formerly funded by the US government, won’t restart as a result of this decision.  In fact, quite the…

Slow-motion denialism: SA’s leaders allowing HIV response to collapse

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Congress should restore and protect HIV funding

Medical professionals Timothy Holtz and Teri Mills worked with AIDS patients in the 1990s, when treatments were few. With miracle drugs within reach, they write that they are aghast at funding cuts to HIV research based on anti-DEI rhetoric.

Pioneer HIV researcher Robert Gallo: Cuts to medical research funding leave us vulnerable to viral threats

Science alone can’t stop a future pandemic. It requires support, investment, and trust, writes HIV pioneer Robert C. Gallo.

Local Thunder Bay organizations feeling impact of global cuts to HIV funding

Global cuts to HIV research and support funding have the Joint United Nations Programme on HIV and AIDS (UNAIDS) worried decades worth of progress in the fight against the disease will quickly begin to unravel. Local researchers and support workers in Thunder Bay are also worried about the potential consequences here in Canada, as cuts, particularly from the US, can create limitations for international partnerships looking into the disease.