{"id":192936,"date":"2025-03-06T06:48:40","date_gmt":"2025-03-06T04:48:40","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/southern-africa\/lesotho\/lesotho-we-were-told-to-stop-everything-immediately-lesotho-hiv-programmes-collapse-after-usaid-decision\/"},"modified":"2025-03-06T06:48:40","modified_gmt":"2025-03-06T04:48:40","slug":"lesotho-we-were-told-to-stop-everything-immediately-lesotho-hiv-programmes-collapse-after-usaid-decision","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/southern-africa\/lesotho\/lesotho-we-were-told-to-stop-everything-immediately-lesotho-hiv-programmes-collapse-after-usaid-decision\/","title":{"rendered":"Lesotho: &#8216;We Were Told to Stop Everything Immediately&#8217; &#8211; Lesotho HIV Programmes Collapse After USAID Decision"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"16\"><em> Fear of a surge in new infections as antiretroviral medicines become harder to get <\/em><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>The stoppage of USAID funding has hit the Phelisanang Bophelong HIV\/AIDS Network, a community-based organisation working with people living with HIV\/AIDS in Lesotho.<\/li>\n<li>Project coordinator Rebonejoang Leoma says he fears a surge in infections as people struggle to access vital antiretroviral medication.<\/li>\n<li>He says the organisation worked with nearly 1,000 LGBTI people and sex workers who are afraid to go to clinics&#8230;<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/allafrica.com\/stories\/202503050156.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Read more on AllAfrica.com<\/a><br \/>\n<br \/>South Africa Today Africa \u2013 Southern Africa <a title=\"Lesotho\" href=\"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/category\/southern-africa\/lesotho\/\">Lesotho<\/a> News<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Fear of a surge in new infections as antiretroviral medicines become harder to get The stoppage of USAID funding has hit the Phelisanang Bophelong HIV\/AIDS Network, a community-based organisation working with people living with HIV\/AIDS in Lesotho. Project coordinator Rebonejoang Leoma says he fears a surge in infections as people struggle to access vital antiretroviral [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":11,"featured_media":192937,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"tdm_status":"","tdm_grid_status":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cdn08.allafrica.com\/static\/images\/structure\/aa-logo-rgba-no-text-square.png","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[1406],"tags":[258,256,9952,7430,6545,9836,4717,1407,257,10782,254,8652,7278,1194],"class_list":["post-192936","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-lesotho","tag-africa","tag-africa-news","tag-collapse","tag-decision","tag-hiv","tag-immediately","tag-lesotho","tag-lesotho-news","tag-news","tag-programmes","tag-south-africa-today","tag-stop","tag-told","tag-usaid"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cdn08.allafrica.com\/static\/images\/structure\/aa-logo-rgba-no-text-square.png","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/192936","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/11"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=192936"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/192936\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/192937"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=192936"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=192936"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=192936"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}