HIV services plunge at four providers in Uganda and Zimbabwe after U.S. aid cuts
A new study published in The Lancet Global Health reveals that U.S. foreign aid cuts in 2025 led to a significant decline in HIV services across four organizations in Uganda and Zimbabwe. Despite humanitarian waivers, prevention and treatment services dropped by up to two-thirds and have yet to recover.
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This research provides empirical evidence on the direct impact of geopolitical funding shifts on public health outcomes in vulnerable regions.
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Add as preferred source Credit: Unsplash/CC0 Public Domain 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.
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