The 13th International AIDS Society Conference on HIV Science (IAS 2025) in Kigali, Rwanda has been dominated by the impact of the US government funding cuts. Especially urgent are discussions on how to finance prevention programmes now that PrEP, for any reason other than to prevent vertical HIV transmission, will no longer be supported by PEPFAR, the President’s Emergency Plan for AIDS Relief, which was responsible for supporting 90% of PrEP provision globally until January this year.
A modelling study by Dr Jack Stone of the University of Bristol estimated that if none of the withdrawn PEPFAR funding is replaced in 28 countries in sub-Saharan Africa, over 700,000 people would lose access to PrEP. This will add between 6700 and 16,000 new cases of HIV within one year.
Read the full news story at aidsmap.
All aidsmap reports from IAS 2025 can be accessed here.
Source : aidsmap
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