AIDS activists protest in Cape Town 26 November 2001 against the government's policy on HIV/AIDS. ANNA ZIEMINSKI/AFP/AFP via Getty Images Related article South Africa's HIV failures cost more than ...

At the time, less than 50,000 people living with HIV in sub-Saharan Africa were on treatment, despite an estimated 2.75 million people dying from AIDS globally the previous year.

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UNAIDS Warns Funding Collapse Puts Decades of HIV Progress at RiskThe Joint United Nations Programme on HIV/AIDS (UNAIDS) has warned that decades of progress in addressing AIDS are at risk after a ...

The United States’ decision to make cuts to the US President’s Emergency Plan for AIDS Relief ( PEPFAR) could result in six ...

Bush demanded billions for AIDS in Africa at his 2003 State of the Union. It paid off. Benjamin Ryan. Updated Wed, February 8, ... Latin America, and North Africa and the Middle East.

The temporary suspension of PEPFAR has disrupted preventive treatments, infant testing, and the work of community health ...

Approaches developed in Africa, such as community health worker programs, have informed American strategies for addressing HIV, COVID-19, and other public health challenges.

The number of people in sub-Saharan Africa becoming newly infected with HIV has plummeted from 2.1 million in 1993 to 640,000 within 30 years — a 70 percent drop.

By 2003, Sub-Saharan Africa, HIV’s epicenter, was on the precipice of broad-based societal collapse due to AIDS. Life expectancy had plunged by 20 years, infant mortality had doubled, child ...