UNAIDS said that at least one status report on the impact of cuts has been received from 55 different countries up to the start of this week.
A mother, holding her two-year-old in southwest Côte d’Ivoire, discovered she was seropositive during her pregnancy. (file)
- The stop-work order triggered a complete shutdown of services funded by the PEPFAR programme, which covers 516 health facilities in 70 per cent of the country’s health districts and 85 per cent of people living with HIV on treatment (about 265,000 people)
- More than 8,600 staff were affected, including 597 clinical workers (doctors, nurses and midwives) and 3,591 community workers
- Distribution of medicines and transport of diagnostic samples ground to halt
- US-funded services partially resumed on 12 February following receipt of waivers, but the majority of US-funded HIV-prevention services for people at high risk of infection, remain shut
- Other national health programmes and systems are affected by the freeze, including the malaria and tuberculosis control programmes and another serving mother and child health alongside the supply chain system for medicines and diagnostics