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We are extremely alarmed by the potential impact of proposed cuts to the global HIV response.
Advances in prevention, testing, and treatment mean that HIV is now a manageable condition when people have access to healthcare. However, as this research clearly highlights, these funding cuts will have a devastating impact for millions of people across the world as well as threatening the progress that has been made, both globally and in the UK, on ending the HIV epidemic. It will lead to a highly dangerous and often fatal increase in cases of HIV for the most marginalised groups and people.
Like any virus, HIV does not stop at international borders. We will not reach the goal of ending new transmissions by 2030 in the UK with a resurgence of HIV across the world. This report must be a wake-up call for the reinstatement of funding and support for HIV treatment and prevention globally as both a moral and practical imperative.
We call on the UK and all other donor countries to change course and avoid risking the consequences of more than 10 million people being affected by a new HIV diagnosis as a result of the proposed cuts.