Millions of HIV/AIDS patients, many of them in Africa, face an uncertain future as a financial cliff-edge for US-funded global programs fast approaches. In September, 120 funding awards for HIV/AIDS work carried out by the US Centers for Disease Control are set to expire, with no concrete replacement system in place.
The programs provide services to more than 8.7 million patients worldwide, analysts say, and it’s unclear what will happen to many patient services on the other side of October 1.
It comes as the US State Department is restructuring the CDC’s work on global health initiatives to assume greater control, according to internal guidance published by the State…