{"id":194672,"date":"2025-03-27T10:32:54","date_gmt":"2025-03-27T08:32:54","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/southern-africa\/lesotho\/lesotho-health-minister-confident-lesotho-can-manage-without-u-s-funding-but-jobs-are-already-being-lost\/"},"modified":"2025-03-27T10:32:54","modified_gmt":"2025-03-27T08:32:54","slug":"lesotho-health-minister-confident-lesotho-can-manage-without-u-s-funding-but-jobs-are-already-being-lost","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/southern-africa\/lesotho\/lesotho-health-minister-confident-lesotho-can-manage-without-u-s-funding-but-jobs-are-already-being-lost\/","title":{"rendered":"Lesotho: Health Minister Confident Lesotho Can Manage Without U.S. Funding, but Jobs Are Already Being Lost"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"13\"><em> And funding cuts are hitting access to HIV tests and medicines <\/em><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Lesotho&#8217;s Minister of Health Selibe Mochoboroane says the government will only need to spend R181.2-million more if the US completely cuts R1.2-billion in HIV funding.<\/li>\n<li>Mochoboroane said the US approach is too expensive and cheaper ways will have to be found.<\/li>\n<li>But at least 805 health workers have already lost their jobs, testing services are no longer widely available, and there are fears that ARV medicines may be disrupted.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\"...<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/allafrica.com\/stories\/202503270041.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>And funding cuts are hitting access to HIV tests and medicines Lesotho&#8217;s Minister of Health Selibe Mochoboroane says the government will only need to spend R181.2-million more if the US completely cuts R1.2-billion in HIV funding. Mochoboroane said the US approach is too expensive and cheaper ways will have to be found. But at least [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":11,"featured_media":194673,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"tdm_status":"","tdm_grid_status":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cdn.allafrica.com\/static\/images\/structure\/aa-logo-rgba-no-text-square.png","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[1406],"tags":[258,256,4376,6141,5731,6643,4717,1407,7408,10965,5941,257,254,2282],"class_list":["post-194672","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-lesotho","tag-africa","tag-africa-news","tag-confident","tag-funding","tag-health","tag-jobs","tag-lesotho","tag-lesotho-news","tag-lost","tag-manage","tag-minister","tag-news","tag-south-africa-today","tag-u-s"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cdn.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\/194672","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=194672"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/194672\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/194673"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=194672"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=194672"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=194672"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}