Thanks to the support of advocates and community members who supported the Save HIV Funding campaign in 2023 and 2024, we were able to successfully avert $1.5 billion in domestic HIV funding cuts proposed by the House majority, as well as lift up calls for a National PrEP Program.

With your support, we were able to build bipartisan support to fund HIV prevention and treatment services for another year. But this year, our fight is more important than ever as the House has proposed nearly $2 billion in cuts to fiscal year 2026 (FY26) funding for HIV programs - including the elimination of CDC’s Division of HIV Prevention and $525 million in cuts to the Ryan White program. Fortunately, the Senate has listened to our advocacy and proposes to protect FY26 funding for HIV programs in its bipartisan spending bill. We must push back against the House bill now, before it moves to the House Appropriations Committee for consideration this Tuesday.

Federal funding has resulted in treatment access annually for more than 500,000 people living with HIV in the U.S. Domestic HIV prevention efforts have accelerated with the establishment of the first National HIV/AIDS Strategy in 2010 and the announcement of the Ending the HIV Epidemic initiative in 2019, resulting in a 21% reduction in new HIV infections since 2017 in America’s most highly affected jurisdictions. If we maintain and expand HIV funding, we could finally bring the epidemic under control in communities nationwide.

In contrast, drastic cuts to domestic funding would put all existing progress at risk. It costs approximately $500,000 in lifetime healthcare costs to treat one case of HIV. An increase of just 2,000 new cases in the US would add a billion in annual costs, far outpacing any savings from cuts. 5,000 people in the U.S. still die from AIDS-related causes each year - cuts will increase this number dramatically. HIV funding has a high return on investment by saving lives, improving health, and reducing costs