{"id":4936,"date":"2026-06-15T13:27:28","date_gmt":"2026-06-15T13:27:28","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/times509.com\/?p=4936"},"modified":"2026-06-15T13:27:44","modified_gmt":"2026-06-15T13:27:44","slug":"hiv-budget-cuts-are-shaking-years-of-progress-against-aids","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/times509.com\/index.php\/2026\/06\/15\/hiv-budget-cuts-are-shaking-years-of-progress-against-aids\/","title":{"rendered":"HIV: Budget cuts are shaking years of progress against AIDS"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"has-medium-font-size wp-block-paragraph\">Less money, less prevention, more risks. A new UN report warns about the consequences of an unprecedented drop in international aid: a decline in testing, weakened access to treatment, and cutback prevention programs in the hardest-hit countries. To the point of raising fears of a resurgence of the epidemic.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-medium-font-size wp-block-paragraph\">The shock is brutal for countries that rely on international aid to contain HIV. The reduction in funding disrupts prevention systems, weakens access to treatment, and creates conditions for a resurgence in transmissions.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-medium-font-size wp-block-paragraph\">Prevention programs are among the first victims of this disengagement. In some countries, funding for condoms has dropped by more than 90%. Meanwhile, the use of PrEP, the preventive treatment against HIV, fell by 38% between 2024 and 2025 in the 62 countries that reported their data to UNAIDS, the United Nations agency dedicated to fighting the virus.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Less money, less prevention, more risks. A new UN report warns about the consequences of an unprecedented drop in international aid: a decline in testing, weakened access to treatment, and&hellip;<\/p>","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":4937,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"googlesitekit_rrm_CAow67bgCw:productID":"","_angie_page":false,"content-type":"","_lmt_disableupdate":"","_lmt_disable":"","_ayudawp_aiss_exclude":false,"_ayudawp_aiss_summary":"","_ayudawp_aiss_summary_provider":"","_ayudawp_aiss_summary_hash":"","page_builder":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[44],"tags":[],"coauthors":[57],"class_list":["post-4936","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-economy"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/times509.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4936","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/times509.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/times509.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/times509.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/times509.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4936"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/times509.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4936\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4938,"href":"https:\/\/times509.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4936\/revisions\/4938"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/times509.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/4937"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/times509.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4936"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/times509.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4936"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/times509.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4936"},{"taxonomy":"author","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/times509.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/coauthors?post=4936"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}