{"id":40751,"date":"2026-07-27T11:49:11","date_gmt":"2026-07-27T09:49:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/?post_type=news&#038;p=40751"},"modified":"2026-07-27T11:49:11","modified_gmt":"2026-07-27T09:49:11","slug":"pepfar-cuts-hit-global-hiv-response","status":"publish","type":"news","link":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/news\/pepfar-cuts-hit-global-hiv-response\/","title":{"rendered":"PEPFAR cuts hit global HIV response"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<p class=\"x_MsoNormal\">A new research study examining the scale of disruptions to HIV programmes due to the funding cuts by the United States President Donald Trump&#8217;s Emergency Plan for AIDS Relief (PEPFAR), has shown a devasting blow to the global response to HIV.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div>\n<p class=\"x_MsoNormal\">The revelations are among the scientific highlights released ahead of the 26th International AIDS Conference which convenes in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil this week.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div>\n<p class=\"x_MsoNormal\">The official opening ceremony is scheduled for later tonight. The funding cuts by Trump&#8217;s PEPFAR could see years of progress in HIV programmes regress.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div>\n<p class=\"x_MsoNormal\">Critical PEPFAR-funded community HIV services provided by organisations serving as implementation partners are the hardest hit.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div>\n<p class=\"x_MsoNormal\">&#8211;SABC&#8211;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"featured_media":15535,"template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false},"news-type":[78,26],"class_list":["post-40751","news","type-news","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","news-type-featured","news-type-general_news","entry"],"acf":{"short_description":"","published_date":"","news_description":"New research study examining the scale of disruptions to HIV programmes","form_embed":"","author":"","image_caption":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news\/40751","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\/40751\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":40753,"href":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news\/40751\/revisions\/40753"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/15535"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=40751"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"news-type","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news-type?post=40751"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}