{"id":214184,"date":"2025-11-19T21:18:59","date_gmt":"2025-11-19T19:18:59","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/southern-africa\/lesotho\/lesotho-u-s-and-lesotho-strike-5-year-health-funding-pact\/"},"modified":"2025-11-19T21:18:59","modified_gmt":"2025-11-19T19:18:59","slug":"lesotho-u-s-and-lesotho-strike-5-year-health-funding-pact","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/southern-africa\/lesotho\/lesotho-u-s-and-lesotho-strike-5-year-health-funding-pact\/","title":{"rendered":"Lesotho: U.S. and Lesotho Strike 5-Year Health Funding Pact"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"16\"><em> Abrupt US aid cuts earlier this year caused havoc in the nation&#8217;s health system <\/em><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>A new five-year health funding pact to stabilise HIV and TB care has been struck between the US and Lesotho after President Donald Trump made crippling aid cuts earlier this year.<\/li>\n<li>More than 1,500 health workers were affected and 60% of Lesotho&#8217;s HIV counsellors lost their jobs when USAID and PEPFAR funding was abruptly halted.<\/li>\n<li>The US Embassy says the new agreement guarantees joint funding for frontline workers and&#8230;<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/allafrica.com\/stories\/202511190327.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>Abrupt US aid cuts earlier this year caused havoc in the nation&#8217;s health system A new five-year health funding pact to stabilise HIV and TB care has been struck between the US and Lesotho after President Donald Trump made crippling aid cuts earlier this year. More than 1,500 health workers were affected and 60% of [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":11,"featured_media":214185,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"tdm_status":"","tdm_grid_status":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cdn.allafrica.com\/download\/pic\/main\/main\/csiid\/00201416:bb8c25781005e4d33a763eba9f0ab2b4:arc614x376:w1200.jpg","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[1406],"tags":[7585,258,256,6141,5731,4717,1407,257,7530,254,2080,2282],"class_list":["post-214184","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-lesotho","tag-5year","tag-africa","tag-africa-news","tag-funding","tag-health","tag-lesotho","tag-lesotho-news","tag-news","tag-pact","tag-south-africa-today","tag-strike","tag-u-s"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cdn.allafrica.com\/download\/pic\/main\/main\/csiid\/00201416:bb8c25781005e4d33a763eba9f0ab2b4:arc614x376:w1200.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/214184","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=214184"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/214184\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/214185"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=214184"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=214184"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=214184"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}