India, July 11 -- Devastating funding cuts from international donors are hitting countries hardest affected by HIV - but many are showing remarkable resilience and determination to keep progress alive.

The UN alerted that funding disruption can lead to 6 million more HIV infections by 2029 in the country.

The 2025 Global AIDS Update released on Thursday by UNAIDS - the global body's agency fighting AIDS and HIV infection - warns that a historic funding crisis now threatens to unravel decades of hard-won gains unless countries radically rethink how they fund and deliver HIV services.

Yet even amid these challenges, many of the most-affected countries are stepping up. Of the 60 low and middle-income nations surveyed in the report, 25 hav...