Is it possible to end new cases of HIV by 2030?

What in the World

• Episode: Is it possible to end new cases of HIV by 2030?
• Website: What in the World
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• Duration: 00:11:41
• Published: 2025-06-05 15:30

World leaders pledged to end the AIDS pandemic as a public health threat by 2030. And the World Health Organisation aims to reduce HIV infections from 1.5 million in 2020 to 335,000 by 2030. The African continent still has the highest number of HIV infections globally.

How will cuts to the US government's main overseas aid agency, USAID, affect the treatment and prevention of HIV in Africa? And will it make it harder for countries to end new cases of HIV by 2030?

BBC Africa health correspondent Makuochi Okafor explains what HIV is and how it’s currently treated and prevented. He also breaks down some of the misinformation around HIV and PrEP (Pre-Exposure Prophylaxis) which stops HIV getting into your body. And we discuss what impact the cuts to USAID are having on HIV treatment and prevention programmes.

BBC journalist Nathalia Jimenez also gives us a brief guide to the cuts to USAID.

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