The United Nations agency focused on HIV/AIDS could close at the end of next year due to the entity’s restructuring before the financing crisis, according to a UN document published on the Internet.
Unusida will “extinguish” at the end of 2026, cites the document published on Thursday, which is part of a set of UN proposals to the Member States on which they will have to decide. He adds that Onusida’s experience should move to the broader UN system the following year.
The UN is reforming while facing the sequelae of the United States foreign aid cuts under President Donald Trump that have hardly affected humanitarian agencies.
Unusida said in a statement in response to the document that already had a transition plan on the way that would see a 55% reduction in the personnel in the short term and a review in 2027 that would ultimately lead to its closure.
According to the UN document, drafted by the Secretary General, any accelerated calendar would have to be approved by the Unaida Board.
Unusida began operating in 1996. Since the first cases of HIV were recorded more than 40 years ago, 88 million people have infected and 42 million have died of AIDS related diseases, according to the organization.
According to the entity, thanks to the deployment of new treatments that save lives, better access to health care, death -related deaths have been reduced by half, from 1.3 million in 2010 to 630,000 in 2023.
However, he warned that almost a quarter of people living with HIV have no access to these treatments and that new infections are increasing in some regions.
“AIDS is not over; the worldwide response to AIDS has been altered in recent months,” says the communiqué of Unusida, who adds that there is much to do if the world wants to achieve the goal of ending AIDS by 2030.
