MIT Technology Review March 18, 2025
Jessica Hamzelou

Survey data suggests that over a third of organizations that relied on US funding for HIV services had already closed by February.

Around 1,400 infants are being infected by HIV every day as a result of the new US administration’s cuts to funding to AIDS organizations, new modeling suggests.

In an executive order issued January 20, President Donald Trump paused new foreign aid funding to global health programs, and four days later, US Secretary of State Marco Rubio issued a stop-work order on existing foreign aid assistance. Surveys suggest that these changes forced more than a third of global organizations that provide essential HIV services to close within days of the announcements.

Hundreds of thousands of people are losing access...

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