Two slides presented at last week’s Conference on Retroviruses and Opportunistic Infections (CROI 2025) in San Francisco starkly illustrated the cost of the almost-complete defunding of HIV pre-exposure prophylaxis (PrEP) provision via PEPFAR, the US President’s Emergency Plan for AIDS Relief.
Dr Cissy Kityo, Executive Director of Uganda’s Joint Clinical Research Centre, showed that the number of people receiving PrEP at least once has expanded from one million in 2021 to eight million by mid-2024. Almost all of this growth has come from PEPFAR programmes, which now provide over 90% of PrEP globally.
In the preceding presentation, Dr Cheryl Case Johnson of the World Health Organization’s Global HIV, hepatitis and STI programmes showed a slide of progress towards the United Nations’ HIV targets.
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