Condom Distribution In Nigeria Plummets 55% As Global HIV Funding Collapses- UNAIDS Reports
The Joint United Nations Programme on HIV/AIDS (UNAIDS) has estimated that the distribution of condoms for prevention of the disease in Nigeria has fallen by 55 per cent from last December to March 2025.
The figure, released Tuesday in UNAIDS’ 2025 World AIDS Day report, Overcoming Disruption, Transforming the AIDS Response, shows what the agency described as widespread disruptions to prevention, testing, and community-based programmes across dozens of countries.
An uncountable number of extra people have died from AIDS, and 2.5 million have lost access to medicine to block the spread of HIV, because of cuts to global programmes since Donald Trump returned to the White House.
“Persistent funding shortfalls and the perilous risks facing the global HIV response are having profound, lasting effects on the health and well-being of millions of people throughout the world,” said a report by UNAIDS.
For nations like Nigeria, where donor support is critical to sustaining prevention infrastructure, the impact has been “immediate and severe,” the report noted.
The report said UNAIDS’ community partners had reported deaths of people living with HIV due to the shuttering of local clinics and treatment, although the exact number of additional deaths remains unclear, as data collection was still ongoing.
The global AIDS response entered “crisis mode” when the largest donor, the United States, which accounted for 75% of international HIV funding, temporarily halted all HIV-related funding earlier in the year, UNAIDS said.
Other donor countries have also dramatically scaled back foreign aid programmes this year, including European countries pressed by Trump to ramp up spending on defence instead.
Though some HIV programmes have since resumed with funds from a U.S. programme known as PEPFAR, the President’s Emergency Plan for AIDS Relief, overall funding continues to decline, jeopardising 2030 targets to end AIDS as a public health threat, UNAIDS said.
