One year after US aid freeze, HIV care in Africa is in retreat

David Kamkwamba, director of Malawi’s Network of Journalists Living with HIV, said the sudden aid cuts were damaging, but they also exposed how dependent African countries had become on U.S. funding. Photo by: Andrew Green / Devex

One year after President Donald Trump froze U.S. foreign aid, HIV treatment still exists across much of Africa — but the outreach, prevention, and monitoring systems that sustained it are fraying. The Aid Report traces how those losses are reshaping access to care across Uganda, Zambia, Malawi, and Botswana.