What you need to know
- Until the beginning of Donald Trump’s second term as President, America was the biggest fund of global HIV initiative.
- Experts said that domestic health institutions are likely to endure efforts to prevent DW cuts and increase in HIV infections with foreign aids.
- He said that despite the risk leakapvir, it was real, a highly promising, preventive drug that is now approved in the US for HIV prevention
The fight against HIV has repeatedly stabbed the United States in 2025 with a cut for major global support programs.
Therefore, there has been a cut in the budget close to the house. And experts have told DW that by 2030, efforts to reduce efforts to eliminate HIV epidemic in the US have been reduced, even, with the approval of the Lenkapavir – UNAIDS officials have done what has done as “miracles” in HIV prevention.
Lencapavir provides six months of security against HIV infection. Famous magazine Science Its name was named 2024 scientist “Year Ki Success”.
Some experts are asking if the initial American public health agencies of the drug may be undone by protecting the LensPavir to fetting for those who need.
“Are we going to snatch it, perhaps the biggest opportunity in 44 years of HIV prevention at the US and globally?” In an interview with DW, Michel Warren asked Nonpartison HIV organization AVAC Executive Director.
Does Lenakpavir make a ‘miracle’ medicine?
Winnayima, Executive Director of UNAIDS, Vinnyima, Joint Agency, which addresses HIV and AIDS worldwide, called Lenakpavir a “miraculous product” in 2024.
If it was publicized, it was found well. In late days clinical trials, Lenkapavir had a correct record of reducing HIV infection.
To reduce viral load in patients with disease, it has already been approved as a treatment, the US Food and Drug Administration has now confirmed Lenkapveer as pre-exposure Profilaxis (Prep). Prep drugs are taken before injecting unsafe sex or drugs to protect against HIV.
Unlike other prep drugs, which aims to disrupt the virus at a stage of the IT life cycle, shown to attack HIV in several stages, increasing the effectiveness.
Around 400,000 American patients use prep as prep, usually a daily pill. But twice a year -old injection with Lenkapavir will provide people with the longest lasting protection.
‘Knock on effects is very big’
In his first term, US President Donald Trump began to end the “HIV epidemic” (marriage) initiative to attempt to prevent the transmission of the disease within the US at the end of this decade.
But the cost of the current Trump administration has reduced the federal health budget, which affects programs including major public health agencies, such as National Institute of Health (NIH) and Disease Control and Prevention Center (CDC) and Medicid.
America’s global assistance initiative, including USAID and black pepper (President’s emergency plan for AIDS Relief), is a sufficient wound.
“Is this NIH research infrastructure [or] For USAID foreign aid, thesis is large programs and none of them is HIV specific, “Warren said.” But [its ability] To give comprehensive and integrated programs that are really at the forefront [of HIV response],
The results of this lost funding, Warren said, “The uniquely weak group, low -income backgrounds, discovered as gay and bisexual men and sexual workers, may not benefit from new prep drugs, lenses, which can make them unprecedented protection.”
Research It has been found in American states, which have expanded Medicade coverage to offer health services “All people with domestic income below a certain level“The rising number of people is using Prep.
Jeffrey Croleley, director of the Center for HIV and infectious disease policy at the O’Neil Institute, the US, said that services like extended Medicade coverage mean that HIV programs have better access to people with disease.
“It is an incredible compatible, and it has helped to run a lot of progress we have seen,” Crowley told DW, “told DW.
Hey said that cuts mean that people lose access to HIV services, which cannot cover other programs.
“I think American people may be proud of how we responded to HIV crisis at domestic and globally, but all this is at risk. We have come, so death, why will we take back one step?”
Global effects will be felt soon
Every year, more than a million new HIV cases are reported globally and, recently, America’s support through the US was necessary to help the most affected areas from specific countries, the disease in Lixids and Pepper Africa.
However, the withdrawal of the support of the Trump administration has already been affected.
Data of UNAIDS suggests that there will be 2.300 more HIV cases per year due to cuts cut alone. To date, the annual infection was already at around 3,500.
“Low funding means that we will receive more and more off-tracks,” in mid-June, Britain said. “We don’t know what the total effect is [of the US cuts] Will be, but there will be effect. Already, you see a decline in the number of people visiting clinics in many countries. ,
The US government continues to support pregnant women and new mothers through Peppar, but changes have stopped access to presenter gay and bisexual men, sexual workers and drug users – groups that are affected by HIV.
Warren said it was similar to the progress “throwing out the entire generation”.
Edited by: Zulfiker Ebony
