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Africa: U.S. Defends New HIV Funding Model As Activists Challenge PEPFAR Reforms
allAfrica, 27 July 2026
HIV activists confronted U.S. officials before the official start of the AIDS 2026 conference over sweeping changes to Washington's global HIV strategy, accusing the Trump… Read more »
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Africa: What the AIDS Funding Withdrawal Revealed About African Health Law
allAfrica, 27 July 2026
For two decades, donor funding helped build one of the world's most successful HIV responses. Now, as the United States scales back support, legal scholar Mnotho Ngcobo says Africa… Read more »
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Burundi: 'A Doctor Told Me to Buy My Coffin' - How Eric Turned an HIV Diagnosis Into Activism
allAfrica, 26 July 2026
When Eric was diagnosed with HIV at 26, a doctor told him to plan for his funeral and give up on the idea of children. Read more »
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Africa: AIDS 2026 - Gilead, Governments Must Make HIV Prevention Medicine More Accessible
MSF, 23 July 2026
Brazil has hosted clinical trials paving the way for lenacapavir's approval and sale, but the medicine remains widely inaccessible for people there. Read more »
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Africa: Tanzania Joins Africa in AU Heads of State Summit Reviewing Strategies to End Aids By 2030
Daily News, 23 July 2026
PRESIDENT'S Advisor on Reproductive, Maternal and Child Health, Ummy Mwalimu, has participated in a special African Union (AU) Heads of State and Government Summit in Accra, Ghana,… Read more »
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South Africa: Alcohol, Sex and Violence - a Dangerous Cocktail That Makes Young Women Vulnerable to HIV
The Conversation Africa, 19 July 2026
South Africa has the largest HIV epidemic in the world, with adolescent girls and young women aged 15-24 at the highest risk of getting HIV. HIV prevalence among girls and women in… Read more »
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Liberia: NAC Chair Pushes Sustainable Local Funding to Strengthen Liberia's HIV Response
Liberian Investigator, 13 July 2026
- The Chairperson of the National AIDS Commission (NAC), Dr. Cecelia J. Nuta, has called for stronger domestic investment in Liberia's HIV response, urging the private sector,… Read more »
Aids Activists Accuse U.S. of Creating Public Health Emergency
HIV activists confronted U.S. officials before the official start of the AIDS 2026 conference over sweeping changes to Washington's global HIV strategy, accusing the Trump administration of creating a public health emergency through funding cuts, while the United States defended a new financing model that it says will build more sustainable, country-led HIV programmes, reports allAfrica's Melody Chironda from AIDS 2026, the 26th International AIDS Conference, in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil.
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New data to be presented at AIDS 2026 will show that injectable lenacapavir given twice yearly remains an exceptional protection against HIV with nearly no new infections, good adherence and no new safety issues across the PURPOSE-1 and PURPOSE-2 trials.
Researchers reported promising results for a weekly oral HIV treatment of islatravir and lenacapavir that was as effective as daily therapy in keeping viral
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UNAIDS chief Winnie Byanyima has warned that the United States' decision to withdraw HIV and Aids funding from South Africa could cost lives and reverse years of progress in the fight against the virus. The US, through the President's Emergency Plan for AIDS Relief (PEPFAR), has been contributing about $400 million annually, accounting for roughly 17% of South Africa's HIV response funding.
South Africa does not rely
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