Africa: What the AIDS Funding Withdrawal Revealed About African Health Law

Rio de Janeiro, Brazil — For two decades, donor funding helped build one of the world’s most successful HIV responses. Now, as the United States scales back support, legal scholar Mnotho Ngcobo says Africa is confronting not just a funding crisis, but a constitutional and ethical one.

Ngcobo, an assistant professor of law at the University of Louisville Brandeis School of Law, presented his research at the AIDS 2026 conference in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil.

Across sub-Saharan Africa, the fight…