Withdrawal of US aid

Lottery commits R124-million to fight HIV and TB

Funding intended to help fill gap left by withdrawal of US funds

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News | 16 October 2025

PEPFAR cuts leave clinics short of staff

Survey finds longer waiting times for ARVs

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News | 15 October 2025

Inside SA’s multi-million rand plan to fill US funding void

About R1-billion in replacement funds expected imminently, but more may be approved

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Feature | 14 August 2025

Lesotho at risk of economic collapse after aid cuts and Trump’s tariffs

African Development Bank warns that economic growth could drop to 0.5% next year

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News | 26 July 2025

After US funding cuts, Mozambican children died: Who bears responsibility?

Both the US and Mozambican governments have failed

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Analysis | 21 July 2025

Slow motion denialism: Our leaders are allowing the HIV response to collapse

Motsoaledi’s claim that 520k people started HIV treatment is implausible

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Analysis | 16 July 2025

Treasury hands HIV response a lifeline, but it’s probably too little

UNAIDS says US funding cuts put decades of progress against HIV in jeopardy

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News | 10 July 2025

US aid cuts leave rural Lesotho schools searching for alternative funding

Across Lesotho, many children are still learning in church halls and outside, says education official

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News | 27 June 2025

Government still has no plan to replace US HIV funding. Health organisations are demanding action

A petition calls on the health department to release an emergency plan

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Brief | 26 June 2025

Death in Mozambique: After US funding cuts, a health system crumbles

Part two: If Marco Rubio came here “we could show him the evidence” of deaths, says villager

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Feature | 25 June 2025

Mozambique: These are the children the United States left to die

Part one: How the Trump Administration abandoned orphans with HIV

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Feature | 19 June 2025

US cuts food aid to 36,000 children in Lesotho

About one in five people in rural Lesotho face food insecurity

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Feature | 6 June 2025

Lesotho’s health system has been decimated by US funding cuts

60% of the country’s HIV counsellors have been laid off and the country’s TB programme is faltering

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News | 2 June 2025

Global Fund is $6-billion short and may have to cut life-saving programmes

US has cut funding and it’s not clear if other donors will meet their pledges

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News | 31 May 2025

Big US-funded chicken project shuts down in Lesotho

Five-year plan was to up meat production by 40%

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News | 28 May 2025

HIV activists urge Parliament to respond to PEPFAR cuts

Parliament told that many clinics have closed and people can’t access HIV medication

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News | 23 May 2025