UNAIDS urges action to prevent HIV crisis globally

Amid continuing uncertainty about the impact of deep US funding cuts on humanitarian work worldwide, the head of the UN agency coordinating the fight against HIV-AIDS warned that an additional 6.3 million people will die in the next four years unless the support is reinstated.

“We will see a real surge in this disease. We will see it come back and we see people dying the way we saw them in the 90s and 2000s,” said Winnie Byanyima,…