{"id":37914,"date":"2026-06-24T12:52:51","date_gmt":"2026-06-24T10:52:51","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/?post_type=news&#038;p=37914"},"modified":"2026-06-24T12:52:51","modified_gmt":"2026-06-24T10:52:51","slug":"us-to-end-pepfar-hiv-programme-in-sa","status":"publish","type":"news","link":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/news\/us-to-end-pepfar-hiv-programme-in-sa\/","title":{"rendered":"US to end PEPFAR HIV programme in SA"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>The United States (US) government is set to discontinue the President&#8217;s Emergency Plan for AIDS Relief (PEPFAR) \u200bin South Africa (SA).<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>The decision follows SA&#8217;s failure to make demonstrable progress on policy requests by the administration.<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>In an emailed statement, the US State Department says it has decided to initiate a phased drawdown, as PEPFAR was never intended to be permanent in SA.<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>US says SA is a middle-income country and is more than capable \u200bof supporting its own health programs.<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>&#8211;Channel Africa&#8211;<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n","protected":false},"featured_media":33504,"template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false},"news-type":[26],"class_list":["post-37914","news","type-news","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","news-type-general_news","entry"],"acf":{"short_description":"","published_date":"","news_description":"US is set to discontinue PEPFAR \u200bin South Africa","form_embed":"","author":"","image_caption":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news\/37914","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/news"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news\/37914\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":37915,"href":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news\/37914\/revisions\/37915"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/33504"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=37914"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"news-type","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news-type?post=37914"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}