Trump, Senate and AIDs
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Senate Republicans narrowly advance Trump's funding cuts targeting $8.3 billion from USAID and $1 billion from the Corporation for Public Broadcasting.
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There are over 100,000 HIV+ Texans. Trump's 'big beautiful' bill would slash funding for federal HIV prevention, medications, support services and research.
A landmark breakthrough in HIV prevention — a scientific feat decades in the making — received final approval from the Food and Drug Administration last month. Gilead Sciences’ lenacapavir is so effective that global health leaders had started to cautiously talk about the end of an epidemic that continues to kill more than 600,000 people each year.
Mathematical models indicate that the worst-case scenario of the Trump administration’s HIV-related cuts could result in 3 million deaths and an infection rate outpacing the virus’s peak in the 1990s.
Senate Republicans remain wary of eliminating the popular and successful global HIV/AIDS program PEPFAR, as they face down a July 18 deadline to vote on President Trump’s first tranche of rescissions requests.
In an interview with The News & Observer, Dr. Barton Haynes discusses the future of HIV vaccine development after HHS canceled the Center for HIV/AIDS Vaccine Development.
South Africa's government has estimated that universities and science councils could lose about $107 million in U.S. research funding over the next five years due to the aid cuts, which affect not only work on HIV but also tuberculosis — another disease with a high number of cases in the country.
Elton John is ringing the alarm bell on what he views as a potentially dangerous cut to HIV care in the proposed federal budget.
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