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HIV services plunge at four providers in Uganda and Zimbabwe after U.S. aid cuts

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HIV services plunge at four providers in Uganda and Zimbabwe after U.S. aid cuts

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A new study from the London School of Economics and Political Science (LSE) and Duke University, published in The Lancet Global Health, documents severe and sustained declines in HIV service delivery for some of the world's most vulnerable populations at four nongovernmental organizations in Uganda and Zimbabwe following the cuts to U.S. foreign aid in 2025.

The research, led by Dr. Henry Cust, LSE fellow in the Department of Health Policy and former research scientist at Duke's Sanford School of Public Policy, is the first to measure the impact on service delivery using data from within organizations whose U.S.-sourced funding was cut and never restored.

HIV prevention, predominantly PrEP (pre-exposure prophylaxis), HIV testing and treatment (antiretroviral therapy; ART) all fell sharply after the 2025 PEPFAR (President's Emergency Plan for AIDS Relief) and USAID (US Agency for International Development) stop-work orders and had not recovered by March 2026, despite a humanitarian waiver meant to protect lifesaving services.

The study shows that when the United States froze foreign aid in January 2025 and halted work under PEPFAR and USAID, HIV service providers in Uganda and Zimbabwe lost more than funding. They lost the systems that helped keep prevention, testing and treatment services running for people at highest risk of HIV.

S. funding withdrawal actually did for those most vulnerable to HIV and at the forefront of the epidemic.


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