The World Health Organization (WHO) voiced concerns about the HIV program funding halt.
WHO is worried that there will be a higher risk of HIV transmission and death and more severe illness without funding. According to WHO’s statement, this could reverse “decades of progress and potentially taking the world back to the 1980s and 1990s when millions died of HIV every year globally, including many in the United States of America.”
By the end of 2023, nearly 40 million people were living with the disease worldwide. WHO called “on the United States Government to enable additional exemptions to ensure the delivery of lifesaving HIV treatment and care.”