HIV and AIDS deaths could increase globally amid US aid freeze, UN says | HIV/AIDS News

US President Donald Trump put almost all US foreign aid on hold upon taking office.

There could be 2,000 new HIV infections a day across the world and a tenfold increase in related deaths, possibly in the millions in the years to come, if funding frozen by the United States is not restored or replaced, the United Nations AIDS agency has said.

US President Donald Trump put almost all US foreign aid on hold upon taking office on January 20. Days later, the US Department of State said…