On January 24, 2025, U.S. President Donald Trump halted all U.S. foreign aid, including funding for HIV services. This threw a global AIDS response built over more than two decades into immediate disarray. The administration has continued to sow chaos in the weeks and months since, allowing some services to resume, while erasing others completely.
This abrupt and ongoing disruption of HIV services is a betrayal, not just of the many millions of people whose lives depend on these programs, but of the many millions more who helped create and sustain this response. Forsaken tells their stories. MORE