WASHINGTON (July 15, 2025)--If U.S. support for global HIV and AIDS programs isn’t replaced it could lead to more than 4 million AIDS-related deaths and 6 million more HIV infections, according to a U.N. report released late last week (UNAIDS).
The sudden withdrawal of U.S. money threatens to reverse decades of progress against this disease, the U.N. said.
Funding losses have already closed down health clinics or left existing facilities without staff, setting back testing, treatment and prevention efforts and forced many communities to halt their efforts to combat HIV.
Timothy H. Holtz, the Chair and Director of the Sumner M. Redstone Global Center for Prevention and Wellness, and a professor of global health at the Milken Institute School of Public Health at the George Washington University, is available to comment on the U.N. report.
Holtz was appointed to take the helm of the Redstone Global Center at GW in July 2024. Previously, he served as the Deputy Director of the Office of AIDS Research at the National Institutes of Health, and spent several years in the field leading HIV prevention research and PEPFAR programs. He can talk about how U.S. support has helped enormously in efforts to eliminate HIV and end AIDS, a goal that is now in jeopardy.
To schedule an interview on this topic with Dr. Timothy Holtz please contact Kathy Fackelmann, kfackelmann
gwu [dot] edu (kfackelmann[at]gwu[dot]edu).