{"id":199808,"date":"2025-06-09T01:44:48","date_gmt":"2025-06-08T23:44:48","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/southern-africa\/lesotho\/lesothos-health-system-has-been-decimated-by-u-s-funding-cuts\/"},"modified":"2025-06-09T01:44:48","modified_gmt":"2025-06-08T23:44:48","slug":"lesothos-health-system-has-been-decimated-by-u-s-funding-cuts","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/southern-africa\/lesotho\/lesothos-health-system-has-been-decimated-by-u-s-funding-cuts\/","title":{"rendered":"Lesotho&#8217;s Health System Has Been Decimated By U.S. Funding Cuts"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"19\"><em> 60% of the country&#8217;s HIV counsellors have been laid off and the country&#8217;s TB programme is faltering <\/em><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>Despite previous assurances by Lesotho&#8217;s Minister of Health that the country&#8217;s HIV response will cope without US funding, senior officials say testing rates are dropping and prevention programmes have been gutted.<\/strong><\/li>\n<li><strong>Only 12% of Lesotho&#8217;s R2.2-billion health budget was government-funded last year. More than half of the budget came from USAID and the US Centre for Disease Control.<\/strong><\/li>\n<li><strong>With 93% of USAID&#8230;<\/strong><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/allafrica.com\/stories\/202506020113.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>60% of the country&#8217;s HIV counsellors have been laid off and the country&#8217;s TB programme is faltering Despite previous assurances by Lesotho&#8217;s Minister of Health that the country&#8217;s HIV response will cope without US funding, senior officials say testing rates are dropping and prevention programmes have been gutted. Only 12% of Lesotho&#8217;s R2.2-billion health budget [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":11,"featured_media":199809,"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":[258,256,7210,35044,6141,5731,1407,9990,257,254,7232,2282],"class_list":["post-199808","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-lesotho","tag-africa","tag-africa-news","tag-cuts","tag-decimated","tag-funding","tag-health","tag-lesotho-news","tag-lesothos","tag-news","tag-south-africa-today","tag-system","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\/199808","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=199808"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/199808\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/199809"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=199808"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=199808"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=199808"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}