Government funding for global HIV initiatives remained largely flat in 2021, even as 1.5 million people were newly infected with HIV; 650,000 died from AIDS, and progress slowed to well below targets, a report from the Kaiser Family Foundation and UNAIDS finds. The report, Donor Government Funding for HIV in Low- and Middle-Income Countries in 2021 (19 pages, PDF), found that bilateral funding from donor governments and contributions to the multilateral Global Fund to Fight AIDS, Tuberculosis and Malaria, UNITAID, and UNAIDS totaled $7.5 billion, down $670 million from 2020, primarily due to the timing of payments. Bilateral funding totaled $5.5 billion, down from $5.6 billion, due mostly to reduced funding from the United Kingdom; since 2011, bilateral funding from governments other than the United States has declined by nearly $1.3 billion. In 2021, the U.S. disbursed $5.5 billion, accounting for 73 percent of total bilateral and multilateral HIV funding; it now accounts for 92 percent of bilateral support, a significant increase from 70 percent a decade ago.