Brazil Eliminated Mother-to-Child HIV in 2025 — Is Health Independence the Answer?
Brazilian HIV advocates at AIDS 2026 warned that nations reliant on foreign aid face a funding cliff, as their own self-funded health system achieved the elimination of mother-to-child HIV transmission in 2025. The dissolution of USAID, while jarring, was a predictable outcome of donor volatility. Brazil's model, though challenged by pharma pricing and research funding cuts, offers a roadmap for sustainable national health programs.
Source: theguardian.com · aol.co.uk