US shutdown of HIV/Aids funding ‘could lead to 500,000 deaths in South Africa’

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Patients’ files at an HIV/Aids clinic in Kampala, Uganda, this month. The sudden halt to USAid funding has forced many health programmes across Africa to close. Photograph: H Nalwadda/Getty

Sweeping notices of termination of funding have been received by organisations working with HIV and Aids across Africa, with dire predictions of a huge rise in deaths as a result. Read More