Winnie Byanyima, the head of UNAIDS, warns that cutting US funding for AIDS programs could lead to a dramatic increase in new HIV infections, deaths, and orphaned children. She stresses the need for continued US support, highlighting the success of past funding in reducing HIV cases and the potential of new prevention tools like lenacapavir.
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program is dropped, warning that millions of people could die and more resistant strains of the disease could emerge.In an interview with The Associated Press, UN
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