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PEPFAR funding starvation and HIV epidemic risk

April 1, 2026Helen Branswell

Helen Branswell warns PEPFAR is being slowly starved through budget and administrative actions, raising concern about backsliding on HIV epidemic gains.

#PEPFAR, which changed the trajectory of the #HIV epidemic, "is being slowly starved, through budgetary choke points and administrative fiat,"
at risk of dying a death of a thousand cuts
Helen Branswell
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