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World AIDS Day highlights major innovations amid decline in global funding

As World AIDS Day is marked around the globe, rapid scientific progress is being overshadowed by funding shortfalls and weakened health systems that are putting the global fight against HIV at risk.

Radio France Internationale

World AIDS Day: A timeline of the fight against one of the world's most devastating epidemics

An estimated 40.8 million people worldwide are living with HIV, and it killed about 630,000 people last year.

Euronews

Aid cuts have shaken HIV/Aids care to its core – and will mean millions more infections ahead

Reports highlight devastating impact of slashed funding, especially in parts of Africa, that could lead to 3.3m new HIV infections by 2030

The Guardian - UK

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‘Groundbreaking’ HIV prevention programme aims to end transmissions by 2030

Health Secretary Wes Streeting has unveiled a new HIV action plan in a bid to end transmissions in the next five years

The Independent UK

Testing at A&Es part of plan to end new HIV cases in England by 2030

Labour announces prevention programme as well as efforts to re-engage people who have fallen out of medical care

The Guardian - UK

Reciting the names of the dead: how Australia’s response to HIV/Aids was emotionally – and politically – powerful

Researchers now describe it as both historical phenomenon and public health model. Its success was remarkable

The Guardian - AU

How to stay healthy on HIV treatment, and what side effects to look out for – Malawi research

HIV treatment has delivered life-altering advantages. Antiretroviral therapy has led to a reduced mortality and improved life expectancy for people living with HIV. Nearly 41 million people were living with HIV in 2024. Eastern and southern Africa accounted for 21.1 million while western and central Africa accounted for 5.2 million.

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The Trump administration will no longer mark World AIDS Day

The US State Department has announced it will no longer commemorate World AIDS Day with public messaging. This ends a decades-long tradition of raising awareness on 1 December.

Euronews

Undiagnosed HIV: a ‘silent crisis’ growing in Europe

Over half of HIV diagnoses in Europe come too late for effective treatment, international health agencies warn in a new report.

Euronews

Australia steps up to help tackle Pacific HIV epidemic

Australia will provide $48 million to its Pacific neighbours to help manage and contain a surge in HIV infections, in a move lauded by advocates as life-saving.

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Elton John says Trump should end Aids if he wants to be ‘one of the greatest presidents in history’

British pop icon says apathy from world leaders towards those living with Aids and HIV is ‘inhumane’

The Independent UK

‘Devastating’ collapse in HIV prevention across the world to drive millions of new infections

Millions of people, particularly in African countries, have lost access to drug treatments, prevention and testing putting the idea of ending the Aids pandemic by 2030 out of reach

The Independent UK

Independent petition urges Starmer to protect HIV/Aids funding – and save lives

The Independent is calling on the British government to protect what is left of foreign HIV/Aids funding as international aid cuts plunge care into an unprecedented crisis

The Independent UK

World is so close to ending Aids pandemic but must keep funding ‘miracle’ drugs, UN chief warns

IN FOCUS: Cutting-edge prevention drugs – hailed as being able to reduce new infections to zero – could see the end of the Aids pandemic, as long as funding continues amid massive cuts, UNAIDS chief tells chief international correspondent Bel Trew

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The Independent UK

Millions of lives at risk from HIV, TB and malaria funding cuts

One of the world’s biggest funders of the fight against HIV, tuberculosis and malaria faces reduced funding for life-saving work over the next three years.

The Guardian - UK

Control of HIV, TB and malaria at risk after global health fund donations fall

World leaders pledge just over $11bn, short of the $18bn experts say is needed to stay on track to tackle challenges

The Independent UK

ICA to screen Independent documentary amid unprecedented cuts to global HIV/AIDs response

To mark World AIDS Day, the Institute for Contemporary Arts will screen our film tackling the collapse of USAID funding

The Independent UK

Eswatini is the first African country to get twice-yearly HIV prevention shot

Eswatini has become the first African country to receive lenacapavir, a twice-yearly HIV prevention injection that global health officials call a game-changer

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Euronews

Europe is not doing enough to detect HIV, hepatitis, health authorities warn

The ECDC says the region could still meet its testing targets for HIV, but that it will be harder to improve detection for hepatitis B and C.

The Guardian - UK

UK warned that 15% cut to health fund will force ‘impossible choices’ on Africa

Advocates fear that other donors will follow Britain’s reduction to the Global Fund for Aids, TB and malaria

The Guardian - UK

Maureen McGinley obituary

Other lives: Nun who spent much of her life working to support people with HIV and Aids in Hong Kong

The Independent UK

African HIV services face double blow of cuts from both Trump and UK

ON THE GROUND: Britain has significantly slashed its contribution to the Global Fund to fight AIDS, Tuberculosis and Malaria – compounding aid cuts announced by Donald Trump earlier this year

The Independent UK

UK set to slash aid funding to fight deadly diseases – putting 250,000 lives at risk

Exclusive: The UK is expected to pledge £850m to the Global Fund to Fight Aids, TB and Malaria – a cut of 15 per cent – despite previous assurances that funding would be protected

The Conversation

Sex for money: South African study reveals the harm that ‘blessers’ can do to young women

A “blesser” is typically an older, relatively wealthier man who provides a younger woman with money, gifts, school fees or lifestyle access in exchange for a relationship that includes sex. Similar arrangements exist around the world, often called “sugar-daddy” relationships, but the South African version is closely tied to extreme…

The Conversation

HIV knows no borders, and the Trump administration’s new strategy leave Americans vulnerable – an HIV-prevention expert explains

Protecting public health abroad benefits Americans.

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