The WHO said funding should be maintained for programmes like PEPFAR, which provides HIV treatment and testing to millions of people worldwide. View on euronews

The State Department issued a waiver for lifesaving aid, but HIV clinics remain shut and uncertainty lingers over the future of PEPFAR, which has saved 25 million lives.

The World Health Organization (WHO) expresses deep concern on the implications of the immediate funding pause for HIV programmes in low- and middle-income countries.

A move by the Trump administration to freeze funding for PEPFAR, the widely heralded international HIV/AIDS program, is putting countless lives at immediate risk, experts say.

The World Health Organization on Tuesday urged the United States to reconsider its decision to suspend funding for HIV treatment programs in developing countries, after President Donald Trump ordered a freeze on foreign aid.

A recent flurry of executive orders and surprise actions by the Trump administration have roiled WHO, the CDC and the international public health community.

Ooh, that’s a big one,” Donald Trump said Monday as he signed an executive order – one of dozens during his first hours as president – to withdraw the United States from the World Health Organization.

Australian and New Zealand aid and support will be crucial in containing Fiji’s serious HIV outbreak – including combating the drug trade that is fuelling it.

Dar es Salaam. Despite the decision by US President Donald Trump to halt foreign development aid, which threatens the availability of free HIV/AIDS antiretroviral (ARV) drugs, stakeholders remain hopeful that these drugs will continue to be accessible.

The extent of the impacts of the Trump administration’s sudden 90-day freeze of almost all foreign aid is still unclear almost a week on, as officials and aid workers overseas try to make sense of which activities must be suspended.

The Trump administration's aid freeze affects HIV treatment access. Find out how organizations are coping with the directive.

Health and humanitarian groups around the world were still uncertain on Wednesday if and how they could resume work after the United States issued a waiver for "life-saving" assistance in President Donald Trump's freeze on U.