{"id":1707,"date":"2025-07-12T23:39:40","date_gmt":"2025-07-12T23:39:40","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/pronews.in\/index.php\/2025\/07\/12\/how-can-countries-save-the-lives-of-people-living-with-hiv\/"},"modified":"2025-07-12T23:39:40","modified_gmt":"2025-07-12T23:39:40","slug":"how-can-countries-save-the-lives-of-people-living-with-hiv","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/pronews.in\/index.php\/2025\/07\/12\/how-can-countries-save-the-lives-of-people-living-with-hiv\/","title":{"rendered":"How can countries save the lives of people living with HIV?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The UN warns that funding cuts will have catastrophic consequences for the fight against the disease.<\/p>\n<div aria-live=\"polite\" aria-atomic=\"true\">\n<p>The United Nations AIDS agency is warning that severe international funding cuts could lead to an additional 4 million deaths related to the disease by 2029.<\/p>\n<p>The United States was the single biggest donor to the global response to HIV\/AIDS before the administration of President Donald Trump abruptly halted foreign development assistance in January.<\/p>\n<p>UNAIDS says the withdrawal of assistance will have catastrophic consequences for the fight against the pandemic.<\/p>\n<p>So, what can countries do to reduce the impact of the funding cuts?<\/p>\n<p>And why did wealthy nations end support for AIDS prevention and treatment programmes?<\/p>\n<p><strong>Presenter:<\/strong> Adrian Finighan<\/p>\n<p><strong>Guests:<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Dr Helen Rees \u2013 director of the Reproductive Health and HIV Institute at the University of the Witwatersrand<\/p>\n<p>Dr Krishna Udayakumar \u2013 founding director of the Duke Global Health Innovation Center<\/p>\n<p>Nidhi Bouri \u2013 former deputy assistant administrator for Global Health at USAID<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The UN warns that funding cuts will have catastrophic consequences for the fight against the disease. The United Nations AIDS agency is warning that severe international funding cuts could lead to an additional 4 million deaths related to the disease by 2029. The United States was the single biggest donor to the global response to &#8230; <a title=\"How can countries save the lives of people living with HIV?\" class=\"read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/pronews.in\/index.php\/2025\/07\/12\/how-can-countries-save-the-lives-of-people-living-with-hiv\/\" aria-label=\"Read more about How can countries save the lives of people living with HIV?\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1708,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1707","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-travel"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/pronews.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1707","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/pronews.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/pronews.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pronews.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pronews.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1707"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/pronews.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1707\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pronews.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1708"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/pronews.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1707"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pronews.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1707"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pronews.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1707"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}