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00:00You
00:30I
00:47Mean you can also
01:00who is the Deputy Executive Director, she also...
01:03So this sudden withdrawal of U.S. funding
01:08has led to shutting down of many clinics,
01:11laying off of thousands of health workers.
01:15These are nurses, doctors, lab technicians,
01:21pharmacy workers, all kinds of data entrists.
01:26It's a lot.
01:28And all this means that
01:34we expect to see new infections rising.
01:38UNAIDS has estimated that we could see new,
01:41we may be having 2,000 new infections every day,
01:45more new infections every day.
01:47This is Nina from AFP.
01:51You mentioned the...
01:53If the U.S. assistance
01:58for HIV is not restored after the pause,
02:04as you know, the pause ends in April,
02:09and is not replaced by other funding,
02:13and we have not heard of other governments
02:16pledging to fill the gap.
02:19There will be an additional, in the next four years,
02:236.3 million AIDS-related deaths.
02:286.3 million more in the next four years.
02:34At the last count, 2023,
02:37we had 600,000 deaths globally, AIDS-related deaths.
02:42So you're talking of a ten-fold increase.
02:45No.
02:46This is enough.
02:47No, no.
02:48Wait.
02:49Okay, shut up.
02:50Wait.
02:50Okay.
02:51Okay.
02:52Okay.
02:53We also expect an additional 8.7 million new infections.
03:19At the last count, there were 1.3 million new infections globally in 2023.
03:26You're talking of losing the gains that we have made over the last 25 years.
03:34It is very serious.
03:41In the longer term, we see the AIDS pandemic resurging.
03:47And resurging globally, not just in the countries where now it has become concentrated.
03:57Low-income countries of Africa, but also growing amongst what we call key populations in Eastern
04:05Europe, in Latin America.
04:08We will see a resurge of this, a real surge in this disease.
04:14We'll see it come back and we'll see people dying the way we saw them in the 90s and in
04:20the 2000s.
04:32The U.S. cuts mean that today 27 countries in Africa and Asia are experiencing shortages
04:41of staff, disruptions of diagnostics, treatment, and surveillance systems are collapsing.
04:50So many staff have already lost their jobs.