World risks HIV resurgence as funding falls 18%, UNAIDS says
UNAIDS reports that global HIV funding dropped by 18% in 2025, reaching its lowest level in nearly two decades. The organization warns that this decline, exacerbated by political instability and reduced international support, threatens to reverse decades of progress in ending the epidemic.
Why it matters
A resurgence of HIV could have devastating global health consequences, particularly in regions like sub-Saharan Africa where prevention programs are already struggling.
Funding fell by 18 per cent to US$7.3 billion (S$9.4 billion) in 2025, which was the lowest level in nearly two decades, the report said.
Listen GENEVA – The world risks a resurgence of the HIV epidemic after global funding fell by nearly a fifth last year, the United Nations body fighting AIDS said on July 27.
Washington previously accounted for 75 per cent of international HIV funding before President Donald Trump’s return to the White House in January 2025.
That month, he ordered a temporary halt to all HIV-related funding before restoring life-saving HIV work days later, although most prevention efforts were curtailed.
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