Fighting HIV/AIDS: Human-Rights Focused Advocacy Is More Critical Than Ever
HealthAffairsBlog - "We are at an interesting and uncertain time in global health. The political climate is, to put it mildly, dynamic. One need only look at the United States, historically the largest donor to the global AIDS response, to see how precarious progress is at the moment. The Trump administration outlined devastating budget cuts that, if enacted, could erode progress, lay the groundwork for further inequities, and hurt those who are already most vulnerable to the HIV/AIDS epidemic.
While the United States is not the only global donor, other bilateral and multilateral HIV and AIDS funding has been flat lining in recent years. A recent Henry J. Kaiser Family Foundation/UNAIDS study indicates that donor government funding for HIV declined by 7 percent in 2016, falling to its lowest level in six years." (Photo: Ted Eytan/flickr, CC BY-SA 2.0)