Health organisations that merge, more investment from the private sector, larger contributions from local governments and a much bigger focus on preventing new HIV infections.
Thats how the international health advocate, Mitchell Warren, sees HIV programmes surviving this year after the US governments massive funding cuts in 2025. Warren heads the New York organisation, Avac, which also works in East and Southern Africa.
One things for sure, the USs money isnt coming back, says Warren at least not to South Africa, despite the country having the largest HIV epidemic in the world. Increasing political tension between President Donald Trumps administration and the South African government resulted in President Trump labelling South Africa at the G20 meeting in Johannesburg in November as a country not worthy of membership anywhere and deservant of the US stopping all payments and subsidies to them, effective immediately .
