GENEVA (AN) — Budget cuts in global health programs since January have led to an uncounted number of extra AIDS deaths and blocked 2.5 million people from accessing HIV prevention medicine, a U.N. agency reported.
The global effort to combat HIV has been thrown into crisis mode. "Persistent funding shortfalls and the perilous risks facing the global HIV response are having profound, lasting effects on the health and well-being of millions of people throughout the world," UNAIDS reported on Tuesday.
