UNAids chief ‘shaken and disgusted’ by US cuts that will mean millions more deaths

<p>Winnie Byanyima tells the Guardian she considered resigning when Donald Trump cancelled Pepfar funding</p><p>The head of the global agency tackling Aids says she expects HIV rates to soar and deaths to multiply in the next four years as a direct impact of the “seismic” US cuts to aid spending.</p><p><a href="https://www.theguardian.com/profile/winnie-byanyima">Winnie Byanyima</a>, the executive director of UNAids, said that if the funding permanently disappeared, the world faced an additional 6 million HIV infections and 4 million <a href="https://www.unaids.org/sites/default/files/2025-04/JC3144_Estimates_Funding_cuts_impact_En.pdf">Aids-related deaths</a> by 2029.</p> <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/global-development/2025/jul/04/us-aid-cuts-kill-millions-unaids-head-winnie-byanyima">Continue reading...</a>