A new report estimates that 135,987 babies will be born with HIV during the 90-day stoppage on foreign aid spending.

The President's Emergency Plan for AIDS Relief, or PEPFAR, provides billions in funding to organizations to combat HIV.

Pepfar, which is estimated to have delivered lifesaving treatment to as many as 25 million people in 54 countries, faces a funding delay of as long as 180 days.

But late last week, the State Department, led now by former Florida Senator Marco Rubio, issued a memo clarifying that the freeze includes current foreign assistance programs as well, including the President's Emergency Plan for AIDS Relief, or PEPFAR. Also affected is USAID, which will hamper global efforts to combat tuberculosis (TB).

Since PEPFAR’s inception, the US government has invested over $100 billion in the global HIV/AIDS response. According to WHO, this the programme provide access to life-saving HIV therapy to more than 30 million people worldwide. Globally, 39.9 million people were living with HIV at the end of 2023.

Newly elected US head of state, Donald Trump, recently announced there will be a freeze to the President's Emergency Plan for Aids Relief - also known as PEPFAR.

International aid groups warned that the Trump administration’s “stop work order” on foreign assistance risks both lives and American influence across Africa, where US aid funds everything from military exercises to local hospitals.

The action originates from President Trump’s executive order on foreign aid, which he signed on his first day in office last Monday.

President Donald Trump has ordered a halt to a decades-old program dating back to the George W. Bush administration that has saved millions of lives abroad by distributing HIV medications to low-income countries,

A legally contested executive order on foreign aid did, at least initially, halt the distribution of life-saving HIV drugs.

PEPFAR has saved 25 million lives around the globe and is considered George W. Bush's greatest achievement. Donald Trump has left its future in doubt.