{"id":78305,"date":"2025-08-06T21:19:45","date_gmt":"2025-08-06T21:19:45","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/?p=78305"},"modified":"2025-08-06T21:19:45","modified_gmt":"2025-08-06T21:19:45","slug":"south-africas-vulnerable-hiv-patients-go-without-medication-after-us-aid-cuts-health-experts-fear","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/2025\/08\/06\/south-africas-vulnerable-hiv-patients-go-without-medication-after-us-aid-cuts-health-experts-fear\/","title":{"rendered":"South Africa\u2019s vulnerable HIV patients go without medication after US aid cuts, health experts fear"},"content":{"rendered":"<span class=\"span-reading-time rt-reading-time\" style=\"display: block;\"><span class=\"rt-label rt-prefix\">Reading Time: <\/span> <span class=\"rt-time\"> &lt; 1<\/span> <span class=\"rt-label rt-postfix\">minute<\/span><\/span><p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/img-s-msn-com.akamaized.net\/tenant\/amp\/entityid\/AA1JZl0V.img?w=534&amp;h=335&amp;m=6\" alt=\"High risk communities including sex workers, drug users, the homeless and trans people may now act as an early bellwether for the impact of Pepfar cuts - PHILL MAGAKOE\/AFP via Getty Images\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Large numbers of vulnerable HIV patients in South Africa are feared to have dropped off medication, in what campaigners warn could be a harbinger of rising infections and deaths after American aid cuts.\u00a0 <a href=\"https:\/\/www.msn.com\/en-gb\/health\/other\/south-africa-s-vulnerable-hiv-patients-go-without-medication-after-us-aid-cuts-health-experts-fear\/ar-AA1JZpwo?ocid=msedgntp&amp;pc=HCTS&amp;cvid=a17ac71fbfaa4a10e36022fa0a5e4eee&amp;ei=20\">Read More<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p><span class=\"span-reading-time rt-reading-time\" style=\"display: block;\"><span class=\"rt-label rt-prefix\">Reading Time: <\/span> <span class=\"rt-time\"> &lt; 1<\/span> <span class=\"rt-label rt-postfix\">minute<\/span><\/span>Large numbers of vulnerable HIV patients in South Africa are feared to have dropped off medication, in what campaigners warn could be&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":37031,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[154],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-78305","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-health"},"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/09\/HIV-1-1.jpg","amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/78305","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=78305"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/78305\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":78306,"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/78305\/revisions\/78306"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/37031"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=78305"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=78305"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=78305"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}