In 2024, US efforts in HIV treatment saw over 20 million beneficiaries but faced a drastic halt when 270,000 healthcare workers were ordered to stop patient care. This pause was alluding to the future uncertainty of PEPFAR’s funding, which historically saved 26 million lives and financed much of the global HIV response. As Congress struggled with reauthorization, experts warned of the dire consequences, estimating a surge in HIV infections and deaths without immediate restoration of funding, jeopardizing the global goal to end the AIDS epidemic by 2030.
It's an abandonment of care, says Eric Goosby, former US global AIDS coordinator and an infectious-disease physician at the University of California, San Francisco.
Reaching the 'AIDS endgame' was always ambitious, but the world had amassed an arsenal of treatment, prevention and management strategies to fight the disease.
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