About Save HIV Funding

Vision

Members of the Save HIV Funding campaign are united in our commitment to protect federal funding and infrastructure supporting access to HIV, STI, Viral Hepatitis, and Substance Use Prevention, Care and Support Services and the continuation of HIV research through collective action and the engagement of community members and legislators.

Save HIV Funding is supported by over 150 organizations seeking to defend and advance the progress we have made over four decades of fighting this terrible epidemic.

ORIGIN

PrEP4All, AVAC, and the HIV Medicine Association in partnership with the Federal AIDS Policy Partnership launched the Save HIV Funding campaign in 2023 in response to proposed cuts to federal HIV funding. With bipartisan support, we were able to successfully avert $767 million in domestic HIV funding cuts proposed by Congress.

At the start of 2025, advocates expanded the campaign in response to the Trump Administration’s efforts to aggressively dismantle essential HIV funding and infrastructure.

ASKS

  • Advocates call on President Trump, his administration, and members of Congress to protect existing HIV funding and clearly communicate how HIV prevention, care, treatment, and related services will be protected.
  • Congress and other policy makers must reject cuts to federal programs for HIV and related prevention, treatment and research that will set the HIV response back decades.
  • We urge Congress to oppose any proposals that would reduce Medicaid funding or restrict access to essential HIV services.

Any of these threats individually would be enough to derail efforts to end HIV as an epidemic. Combined, the cancellation of existing grants, threats of 2026 funding cuts, and attacks on Medicaid would be a costly disaster for the US HIV response.

According to amFAR, slashing critical HIV prevention funding and infrastructure will lead to 143,000 new HIV infections and 127,000 AIDS-related deaths, making it impossible to meet the federal deadline of ending the HIV epidemic by 2030.

Frequently Asked Questions

The Save HIV Funding campaign is an umbrella campaign launched in 2023 in response to proposed cuts to federal HIV funding. The Save HIV Funding campaign has since expanded in response to the Trump Administration’s efforts to aggressively dismantle funding and infrastructure that is essential for the national response to HIV. The campaign’s goals are to protect federal funding and infrastructure supporting access to HIV, STI, Viral Hepatitis and Substance Use Prevention, Care and Support Services through collective action, engagement of community members and legislators

We are focused on three major aims (you can read more on our campaign and specific demands here)

  • Stop staffing and funding cuts to key federal HIV infrastructure by the Trump Administration
  • Fight against cuts to HIV programs in the FY2026 Congressional budget
  • Combat all efforts to restrict access to Medicaid, the largest provider of healthcare coverage for people living with HIV in the US

Our funding demands and the devastating impact they would have on our national HIV response form the center of our campaign. However, we also weigh in on other intersectional national and international policy topics whenever possible.

No, Save HIV Funding is not a coalition. A campaign is different from a coalition; it is time bound and issue specific. Once the threat passes, it should cease to exist. Until then, it works in an additive way to existing infrastructure. Campaigns have the benefit of being able to organize around strategy, communications, and awareness building tactics. This is different from coalitions in the HIV space, which are organized around specific topics. A campaign is a tactic that can be used by coalitions operating in the HIV community to strengthen our individual and collective advocacy.

PrEP4All, AVAC, and the HIV Medicine Association in partnership with the Federal AIDS Policy Partnership launched the Save HIV Funding campaign. Since launch, over 110 partner organizations have signed on to support the campaign and its principles. An umbrella campaign is a basic show of solidarity and organization that makes us stronger and inspires more confidence from followers and funders. If your organization is interested in endorsing the campaign, click here to join or email Campaign Manager, Maxx Boykin at [email protected].