Those deaths — agonizing, from diseases the body might otherwise fight off — sent loved ones into the streets, pressuring governments to act. The United States eventually did, creating PEPFAR, arguably the most successful foreign aid program in history.

Some 400 calls for help went unanswered when the helpline at Ukraine’s Veteran Hub went silent for a week after key funding from the United States was abruptly

Pandemonium broke out in the aid world. The US accounts for roughly 42% of global humanitarian spending. In some areas such as HIV-AIDs prevention and treatment, its $5.4bn (2024) in annual spending (97% for overseas programs) is over 25% of the global budget.

With the endless stream of announcements, reversals, measures and countermeasures coming from the new administration of United States President Donald Trump, it has become difficult to make sense of what is just noise or opening negotiation offers and what constitutes actual policy change.

Those deaths — agonizing, from diseases the body might otherwise fight off — sent loved ones into the streets, pressuring governments to act. The United States eventually did, creating PEPFAR, arguably the most successful foreign aid program in history.

Along with multiple physicians across the United States, yes, we were shocked on Jan. 31 to find that important information relating to HIV care, transgender care, sexually transmitted infections

The U.S. government's foreign aid freeze has upended the supply chain for medical products crucial for fighting diseases including HIV and malaria in some of the world's poorest countries, and life-threatening gaps could persist for months,

South African lab technician Nozipho Mlotshwa was waiting for the test results for a potential HIV vaccine, which has eluded scientists for decades, when the order came from USAID to stop work. The first round of vaccines she and her colleagues made in Johannesburg had produced an immune response in rabbits,

The Department of Health said it would provide HIV patients with antiretrovirals for six months after the United States government cut funding for HIV programmes.

If PEPFAR is not reauthorized for the next four years, and without other resources for the HIV response, there would be 6.3 million AIDS-related deaths in the near future, a 400% increase, Christine Stegling, the deputy executive director of the United Nations agency tasked with tackling HIV and AIDS, UNAIDS.

The group released a statement today expressing that they are eager to work with Robert F. Kennedy Jr. to eradicate HIV when steps into his role as the Secretary of Health and Human Services.

South Africa has more people living with HIV than any other country, and US President Donald Trump’s aid freeze has hit patients hard – as well as researchers, who were close to a breakthrough in