The State Department issued a waiver for lifesaving aid, but HIV clinics remain shut and uncertainty lingers over the future of PEPFAR, which has saved 25 million lives.

A U.S. humanitarian waiver will allow people in several countries to continue accessing life-saving HIV treatments, the UNAIDS said on Wednesday, after President Donald Trump's freeze on foreign aid threatened such supplies.

A Nigerian man has described how he found out that he had HIV after repeatedly falling sick and not recovery. He went for a general test and it was confirmed.

A move by the Trump administration to freeze funding for PEPFAR, the widely heralded international HIV/AIDS program, is putting countless lives at immediate risk, experts say.

Almost 136,000 babies are expected to be born with HIV in the next three months, mostly in Africa, because of the Trump administration’s “stop work order” on foreign assistance, according to a top research foundation.

A stop in all of PEPFAR’s work shuttered clinics this week. Then, a new exemption for “life-saving” treatment left organizations uncertain.

The President’s Emergency Plan for AIDS Relief (PEPFAR), a federal program that provides HIV medications, is one of the programs on pause during a 90-day review ordered by the Secretary of State.

The World Health Organization (WHO) expresses deep concern on the implications of the immediate funding pause for HIV programmes in low- and middle-income countries.

If it hadn’t come through, we still had sufficient stocks in the short term and hoped that Government would plan to bridge the gap in medium and long term

But on Tuesday, after public outcry, the Trump administration walked back its ban on distributing HIV medication to patients who need it. Secretary of State Marco Rubio announced that the State Department would offer a waiver for lifesaving medication. It’s not clear if this applies to preventative medication offered by PEPFAR, like PrEP.

The United States Secretary of State's "Emergency Humanitarian Waiver" will allow people to continue accessing life-saving HIV treatment, UNAIDS said on Wednesday. UNAIDS is a joint venture of the United Nations,