Risk of 2,000 new HIV infections daily after US aid freeze, UN AIDS agency estimates

https://www.youtube.com/channel/UChLtXXpo4Ge1ReTEboVvTDg https://ift.tt/NeP2fyj There could be 2,000 new HIV infections across the globe every day as a result of USAID cuts, the United Nations AIDS agency (UNAIDS) says. Warning peers on Monday, UNAIDS Executive Director Winnie Byanyima said the “sudden withdrawal of U.S. funding has led to shutting down of many clinics and laying off of thousands of health workers.” People living with HIV risk becoming resistant to drugs because there have been delays to their treatment due to the shuttering of U.S.-funding health and testing clinics, according to UNAIDS. “We will see a resurge of this – a real surge in this disease,” Byanyima said. “We'll see it come back and we'll see people dying the way we saw them in the 90s and in the 2000s,” she added. For more info, please go to https://globalnews.ca Subscribe to Global News Channel HERE: http://bit.ly/20fcXDc Like Global News on Facebook HERE: http://bit.ly/255GMJQ Follow Global News on X HERE: http://bit.ly/1Toz8mt Follow Global News on Instagram HERE: https://bit.ly/2QZaZIB #GlobalNews #HIV #UN #Health #USAID