Dozens of trials on HIV ground to a halt in February after US President Donald Trump abruptly pulled crucial funding.
Critical community initiatives that provide testing, food and support and HIV vaccine research have been dismantled.
US President Donald Trump put almost all US foreign aid on hold upon taking office.
Trump administration has targeted USAID as part of president’s efforts to trim government spending and reduce ‘waste’.
In South Africa alone, funding cuts could lead to 500,000 deaths in 10 years, experts warn.
Elon Musk’s criticism of USAID has sparked debate over whether the aid agency should be permanently closed.
Twenty years since antiretroviral therapy was rolled out in the country, HIV/AIDS patients are living full lives.
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Credited with saving 25 million lives, the AIDS programme PEPFAR now faces an uncertain future in a divided US Congress.
Secretary of State Antony Blinken says legislation, which includes the death penalty, is deeply troubling.
Updated guidelines will replace three-month abstinence rule that LGBTQ advocates had long decried as discriminatory.
Case could decide whether Obamacare can require insurance providers to cover preventive services for cancer and HIV.
The treatment is the first non-pill option against HIV and studies show that it outperforms the efficacy of oral pills.
But to get there we need to give everyone, everywhere equal access to groundbreaking new drugs and treatments.
Around the world, every week about 4,900 young women aged between 15 and 24 become infected with HIV.
