That's a shock at a time of rising complacency around HIV, declining condom use among some young people and the rise of a medication that some believe could end AIDS for good.
“Without HIV treatment, people with AIDS typically survive about three years,” the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention says.
Restoring the effects caused by the Trump administration's foreign aid freeze during a 90-day review period, and understanding what’s allowed under the waiver for PEPFAR, will take time that health experts say many people don't have.
For years, the importance of taking the drugs every day, even at the same time of day, has been emphasized to people with HIV.
The U.S.-led global response to HIV has been so effective that AIDS wards of people wasting away are a vision of the past.
