Overview

• UNAIDS projects more than 4 million additional AIDS-related deaths and 6 million new HIV infections by 2029 without replacement of US funding.
• The abrupt halt of US HIV aid has destabilized supply chains, shuttered thousands of health clinics and forced layoffs that have interrupted testing and prevention programs.
• Health workers have been sent home and essential services have vanished overnight, leaving children and key populations unable to access treatment.
• Twenty-five of 60 low- and middle-income countries intend to increase domestic HIV budgets in 2026, but these measures fall far short of compensating for lost international support.
• The suspension threatens the rollout of FDA-approved injectable PrEP like Yeztugo, imperiling innovative prevention tools in regions hardest hit by the epidemic.