Patrick Ashinze, Abba Inalegwu Owoicho, Michael Olanite
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Partial waivers: PEPFAR's 2025 funding suspension and the looming HIV/AIDS catastrophe in Sub-Saharan Africa.
Despite recent partial waivers granted by PEPFAR, the 2025 suspension of PEPFAR funding jeopardizes HIV/AIDS care for 20.6 million people, including 550,000 children, and risks reversing decades of progress in Sub-Saharan Africa (67% of global HIV burden). Immediate consequences include halted ART access, healthcare worker salary suspensions, and potential resurgence of AIDS-related deaths to 630,000 annually. Political disputes and funding misuse allegations further threaten program continuity. We urge expanded PEPFAR exemptions, rapid donor mobilization, and grassroots advocacy to avert catastrophe.
期刊介绍:
Retrovirology is an open access, online journal that publishes stringently peer-reviewed, high-impact articles on host-pathogen interactions, fundamental mechanisms of replication, immune defenses, animal models, and clinical science relating to retroviruses. Retroviruses are pleiotropically found in animals. Well-described examples include avian, murine and primate retroviruses.
Two human retroviruses are especially important pathogens. These are the human immunodeficiency virus, HIV, and the human T-cell leukemia virus, HTLV. HIV causes AIDS while HTLV-1 is the etiological agent for adult T-cell leukemia and HTLV-1-associated myelopathy/tropical spastic paraparesis. Retrovirology aims to cover comprehensively all aspects of human and animal retrovirus research.