The Trump administration has cut most of its foreign aid contracts, amounting to around $60 billion in aid and has cut funding to the Joint United Nations Programme on HIV/AIDS (UNAIDS). 

We are now entering an AIDS emergency.

While Frontline AIDS receives no US funding, around half of our partners – 30 out of our 60 global partners – are impacted by the American foreign aid cuts. Together, we demand a new era of leadership and collaboration in the global HIV response.

The cuts will see millions of people living with and affected by HIV without access to services, including HIV prevention, testing and treatment. This includes services to key populations – gay men and other men who have sex with men, transgender people, people who use drugs, and sex workers.

UNAIDS estimates that AIDS-related deaths will increase by tenfold to 6.3 million with over eight million new HIV infections by 2030. Frontline AIDS and its partners have been working towards ending AIDS 2030 as part of the United Nations Sustainable Development Goals.

We are working with our partners to capture the impact of these cuts, secure alternative funding and lobby governments to minimise disruption to services.

The Frontline AIDS partnership is made up of more than 60 partners from 100 countries around the world – the largest global partnership of community and civil society organisations working together to end AIDS – headquartered in the UK and South Africa.

frontline aids in the news

Experts warn of threat to global health as US freezes overseas aid – BBC

The man died: – There are many who will not survive – TV2 (Norway)

Trump USAID cuts make impact in South Africa – Channel 4 News (UK)  – The GBV intervention programme, GRIP, was supported by the Networking HIV and AIDS Community of Southern Africa ( NACOSA), a Frontline AIDS partner.

Trump’s gutting of USAID sends chill through Southeast Asia – Al Jazeera – featuring Choub Sok Chamreun, Executive Director, Khmer HIV/AIDS NGO Alliance (KHANA) in Cambodia , a Frontline AIDS partner.