{"id":241920,"date":"2026-08-23T08:09:52","date_gmt":"2026-08-23T06:09:52","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/west-africa\/nigeria\/nigerians-turn-to-faith-healers-as-hiv-aid-dries-up\/"},"modified":"2026-08-23T08:09:52","modified_gmt":"2026-08-23T06:09:52","slug":"nigerians-turn-to-faith-healers-as-hiv-aid-dries-up","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/west-africa\/nigeria\/nigerians-turn-to-faith-healers-as-hiv-aid-dries-up\/","title":{"rendered":"Nigerians Turn to Faith Healers As HIV Aid Dries Up"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"33\">Kano, Scidev.Net \u2014 Aisha* once relied on free antiretroviral therapy (ART) from a clinic in Maiduguri, northeastern Nigeria, funded through the US President&#8217;s Emergency Plan for AIDS Relief (PEPFAR) programme. The treatment kept her <a href=\"https:\/\/www.scidev.net\/global\/health\/hiv-aids\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">HIV<\/a> suppressed.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"16\">That changed when US President Donald Trump ordered a halt to PEPFAR funding in January 2025.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"34\">&#8220;When I went to the facility and was told the drugs were no longer available for free, my heart sank because I couldn&#8217;t afford to pay for them out of&#8230;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/allafrica.com\/stories\/202608210435.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Read more on AllAfrica.com<\/a><br \/>\n<br \/>South Africa Today Africa \u2013 West Africa <a title=\"Nigeria\" href=\"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/category\/west-africa\/nigeria\/\">Nigeria<\/a> News<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Kano, Scidev.Net \u2014 Aisha* once relied on free antiretroviral therapy (ART) from a clinic in Maiduguri, northeastern Nigeria, funded through the US President&#8217;s Emergency Plan for AIDS Relief (PEPFAR) programme. The treatment kept her HIV suppressed. That changed when US President Donald Trump ordered a halt to PEPFAR funding in January 2025. &#8220;When I went [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10,"featured_media":241921,"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":[249],"tags":[258,256,7828,49501,8406,10559,6545,257,393,6665,254,7101],"class_list":["post-241920","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-nigeria","tag-africa","tag-africa-news","tag-aid","tag-dries","tag-faith","tag-healers","tag-hiv","tag-news","tag-nigeria-news","tag-nigerians","tag-south-africa-today","tag-turn"],"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\/241920","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\/10"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=241920"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/241920\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/241921"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=241920"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=241920"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=241920"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}