{"id":40237,"date":"2026-07-22T08:11:08","date_gmt":"2026-07-22T06:11:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/?post_type=news&#038;p=40237"},"modified":"2026-07-22T08:11:22","modified_gmt":"2026-07-22T06:11:22","slug":"fewer-children-got-us-backed-hiv-treatment-after-aid-cuts-study","status":"publish","type":"news","link":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/news\/fewer-children-got-us-backed-hiv-treatment-after-aid-cuts-study\/","title":{"rendered":"Fewer children got US backed HIV treatment after aid cuts: Study"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"x_elementToProof\">Around 77 000 fewer children worldwide received HIV treatment supported by the United States (US) in the year to \u200bOctober 2025 than in the previous fiscal year, according to a study that found declines after the Trump administration&#8217;s cuts \u200cand changes to foreign aid.<\/div>\n<div class=\"x_elementToProof\"><\/div>\n<div class=\"x_elementToProof\">The study refers only to US supported care, and some of the children may have received treatment through national governments or other donors.<\/div>\n<div class=\"x_elementToProof\"><\/div>\n<div class=\"x_elementToProof\">The analysis of US government data found US supported pediatric HIV treatment fell by around 14% year-on-year, although the researchers said more detailed country-level data were needed to assess the full impact.<\/div>\n<div class=\"x_elementToProof\"><\/div>\n<div class=\"x_elementToProof\">&#8220;These are signals, \u200bnot a verdict. But children cannot wait,\u201d said Kenneth Ngure, professor of global health at Jomo Kenyatta University of Agriculture and Technology \u200band a co-author of the study, presented at the AIDS 2026 conference in Rio de Janeiro on Tuesday.<\/div>\n<div class=\"x_elementToProof\"><\/div>\n<div class=\"x_elementToProof\">Other studies, including \u2060by United Nations Programme on HIV\/AIDS, have also shown gaps in the HIV response since the cuts.<\/div>\n<div class=\"x_elementToProof\"><\/div>\n<div class=\"x_elementToProof\">The US State Department said it had not reviewed the study in \u200bdetail but its methodology was flawed.<\/div>\n<div class=\"x_elementToProof\"><\/div>\n<div class=\"x_elementToProof\">They said the decline was a sign of the success of the program, as fewer children were getting infected with \u200bHIV, and the numbers on treatment had been going down for four years.<\/div>\n<div class=\"x_elementToProof\"><\/div>\n<div>&#8211;Reuters&#8211;<\/div>\n","protected":false},"featured_media":40238,"template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false},"news-type":[78,26],"class_list":["post-40237","news","type-news","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","news-type-featured","news-type-general_news","entry"],"acf":{"short_description":"","published_date":"","news_description":"Around 77 000 fewer children worldwide received HIV treatment","form_embed":"","author":"","image_caption":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news\/40237","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\/40237\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":40239,"href":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news\/40237\/revisions\/40239"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/40238"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=40237"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"news-type","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news-type?post=40237"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}