aidsmap news story
Even before the Trump government slashed its overseas HIV budget last year, with prevention facing some of the deepest cuts, very few countries in the world had enough people using PrEP to substantially reduce their HIV infection rate, or even to make a noticeable dent in it.
Dr Andrew Hill of Liverpool University in the UK told CROI 2026 that cutting the US’s PEPFAR PrEP programme had made the situation considerably worse. In some African countries the number of people on PrEP has fallen by as much as 98%. If this trend continued, Hill said, far from HIV infections falling to UNAIDS’ target of no more than 370,000 a year, there would continue to be 1.4 million infections a year – or perhaps even more.
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