Programs for newborns, people with HIV at risk of federal cuts, Nashville mayor warns

Trump’s Revenge on Public Health

If the United States learned any lesson from HIV, it should have been that negligence can be a death sentence. In the early 1980s, the virus’s ravages were treated as “something that happens over there, only to those people,” Juan Michael Porter II, a health journalist and an HIV activist, told me. But the more the virus and the people it most affected were ignored, the worse the epidemic got.Reckoning with that reality changed the course of the…

Researcher Marion Aballéa recalls that the United States is playing an "undoubted leadership role" in the global fight against AIDS. Trump's budget cuts question the goal of ending the pandemic in the near future.

Trump quietly purges presidential HIV advisory council, sparking public health fears

HIV advocates and public health experts are raising alarms after the Trump administration moved to remove all members of the Presidential Advisory Council on HIV and AIDS — a group that for three decades has provided critical guidance on federal HIV prevention, treatment, and care policy.Keep up with the latest in LGBTQ+ news and politics. Sign up for The Advocate's email newsletter.The decision, first reported by Reuters, comes amid sweeping cu…

Trump Admin Plans to Remove All Members From a 30-Year-Old HIV Advisory Council

Two anonymous sources told Reuters that the Presidential Advisory Council on HIV/AIDS is being gutted.

South Africa: U.S. Funding Cuts Could Cause Over 150,000 Extra HIV Infections in South Africa By 2028

Experts say this can be avoided if the South African government covers some of the defunded services

How US funding cuts are threatening South African families living with HIV

Critical community initiatives that provide testing, food and support and HIV vaccine research have been dismantled.