U.N. Finds Global HIV Prevention Declined Drastically after USAID Cuts

Decades of advances in the global fight to stop the spread of HIV/AIDS are in peril amid wide-scale cuts to prevention programs, according to a United Nations report.

The number of people who received pre-exposure prophylaxis (PrEP) medication, used to prevent those at risk from contracting HIV, declined by a drastic 38 percent between 2024 and 2025, per initial data from 62 countries — which means more than a million fewer people took the drug. Funding for condoms has been cut in some cases by more than 90 percent, according to the report.

The drop-off comes after major cuts, pauses and disruptions to foreign aid by the United States under President Donald Trump, along with efforts to trim aid by other wealthy countries and domestic funding shortfalls in affected countries. "Tenuous" progress in the global effort to end the AIDS epidemic by 2030 has continued: New HIV infections declined globally from 2.1 million in 2010 to 1.2 million in 2025, and AIDS-related deaths declined from 1.3 million in 2010 to 570,000 in 2025, the lowest in more than 30 years, the report alos found.

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