U.S. cutting of AIDS support means Asia must step up

United Nation's goal of epidemic control by 2030 faces defeat

2025-03-24 AIDS Support

A child plays at an advocacy wall after receiving a dose of antiretroviral ARV drugs used to prevent HIV from replicating, at the Nyumbani Children's Home in the Karen district of Nairobi, Kenya, on Feb. 12, 2025.  © Reuters

Eamonn Murphy is regional director at UNAIDS Asia Pacific and Eastern Europe Central Asia. Masaki Inaba is co-chair of the Africa Japan Forum.

At the start of the AIDS epidemic, a few groups were particularly affected: gay men and people who inject drugs. But HIV crossed to new communities, countries and continents. Women and children died. People everywhere were infected during their most productive years.

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