The death of HIV and AIDS can increase globally against the background of freezing US help, UN says | HIV/AIDS News

US President Donald Trump has put almost all of US foreign assistance in investing.

There may be 2000 new HIV infections worldwide around the world and a tenfold increase in related deaths, probably in millions in the coming years, if funding frozen by the United States has not been restored or replaced, the United Nations AIDS agency said.

US President Donald Trump put almost all foreign assistance in the United States after taking office on January 20. Days later, the US State Department said life-saving HIV works according to the President's emergency plan to relieve AIDS (PEPFAR) will continue.

But the interruption of health and impact financing on the wider services have a detrimental impact on people living with HIV/AIDS, UNAIDS CEO Sword Banya told reporters in Geneva on Monday.

“This sudden withdrawal of funding in the United States closes many clinics, dismissing thousands of health workers … All this means that we expect to see new infections. saidS

She added that if funding from the US Agency for International Development (USAID) did not resume at the end of the 90-day pause in April or had not been replaced by another government, “there will be an additional 6.3 million deaths of AIDS over the next four years.”

“We will see return and see people die the way we saw them in the 90s and in the 2000s,” she said.

Byanyima said the numbers are based on UN modeling, but they do not give more details about how the evaluations were reached.

According to recent data, there were 600,000 deaths related to AIDS worldwide in 2023.

UNAIDS, which coordinates the global response to HIV/AIDS prevention and treatment, received $ 50 million for major funding from the United States last year, representing 35 percent of the UN agency budget.

The Trump administration said the funding was frozen to ensure that it was in line with President President President's policy. US Secretary of State Marco Rubio has rejected fears that Washington has terminated foreign assistance, saying that refusals had been provided for life -saving services.

The members of the Trump team say they have saved us the taxpayers tens of billions of dollars through rapid movements to cancel contracts, fire workers and eradicating fraud and waste in the government, although they have proposed a little evidence to support this claim.