‘We are seeing the end in sight. Don’t stop now,’ UNAIDS chief tells US and the West

In an interview with FRANCE 24, Winnie Byanyima, executive director of UNAIDS, warned that “rapid and abrupt” cuts in US funding for AIDS programmes were threatening the advances made in fighting the epidemic in recent years. She expressed hope that some of the programmes that had been suspended by the Trump administration were being reinstated, but noted that “steady declines” in funding from Europe and other donors were putting fragile populations, especially “in low-income countries of Africa”, at risk of “more new infections and more deaths”.