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I'm Tim Franks.
Sometimes when we talk about budget cuts,
about reductions for example in funding for aid programmes,
it can sound a bit abstract, a bit bloodless.
But the figures out today by the UN's agency which deals with HIV and AIDS are anything but.
The startling conclusion from UNAIDS is that with massive cuts to money from the United States and other major donors,
over the next four years there could be six million new HIV infections and a further four million AIDS-related deaths globally.
The agency's report has just been released in South Africa,
which has the highest number of people living with HIV anywhere in the world.
It's also home to some of the world's leading HIV researchers whose work could be heavily affected by the cuts.
First, our Africa correspondent Myeni Jones is in Johannesburg and she sent us this report.
I'm at the Vidkoppen Clinic in northern Johannesburg in their waiting room.
There's about 50 people here waiting to be seen.
This is a clinic that sees over 200 people a day, most of them from lower incomes,
some of them migrants, and it's been affected by the USOID cuts.
And this is a clinic that is a lifeline for people that often don't have somewhere else to go.
We visited the Vidkoppen Clinic shortly after the cuts were first announced and spoke to some of its patients who were anxious about their impact.
So, firstly, when I was sick without attending the clinic, my life was so bad.