HIV cases surge due to funding cuts
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HIV-funding cuts could drive millions of deaths
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A new study predicts the impact of cuts to international funding for HIV/AIDS programs.
Low- and middle-income countries rely on international sources for 40% of their HIV program funding.
Five top donors of this funding have all announced significant cuts to foreign aid.
Cuts could "undo nearly all progress achieved since 2000 ," expert says.
If PEPFAR funding were stopped, surges in HIV incidence could undo progress since 2000 .
This worst-case scenario would hit sub-Saharan Africa particularly hard.
Children in the region could see a nearly three-fold increase in HIV infections.
Sex workers, such as sex workers, would be much harder hit by such cuts.
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