For nearly three decades, a quiet infrastructure of knowledge, workers, and systems has kept hundreds of thousands of children alive with HIV across the developing world — not through medicine alone, but through the human architecture surrounding it. When the United States dismantled its Pepfar commitments in early 2025, South Africa lost not pills but the machinery that delivered them, and nearly 31,000 children fell out of care within a single year. Presented at the International Aids Conference in Rio de Janeiro, new research makes plain that this is not the continuation of a historical tre
Pepfar cuts leave 30,880 SA children without HIV treatment
30,880 South African children lost HIV treatment access; children die more rapidly without antiretroviral therapy and face decades of health vulnerability.