US EditionAsthma Sufferers Could Be at Greater Risk if Trump Cuts Health Program
- On May 6, a briefing was held at the U.S. Capitol to raise awareness about funding reductions affecting the CDC’s National Asthma Control Program and related initiatives, organized by a leading nonprofit focused on asthma and allergy issues.
- These cuts followed federal layoffs and a White House budget proposal in April and May that aimed to save costs by eliminating the NACP and other programs, though concerns remain about future impacts.
- The NACP, launched in 1999, supported 29 state and local programs using strategies like EXHALE, contributing to a 45% decline in asthma deaths by 2018 and saving $71 in health care costs per dollar invested.
- Kenneth Mendez, AAFA CEO, emphasized that the CDC's programs are unique and cannot be duplicated by other entities, while Lynda Mitchell of Allergy & Asthma Network highlighted the continued importance of asthma education to help prevent emergency room visits.
- Without restored funding, experts warn that asthma patients, especially in vulnerable and low-income communities, may suffer worse health outcomes due to loss of prevention, education, and research support nationwide.
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HHS shutters asthma, smoking programs
As the federal government lays off workers at CDC and NIAID, shutters programs, cuts research grants, and considers changes in Medicaid and Medicare, asthma patients will experience worse outcomes, according to experts.“The cuts are really worrisome because they’re very much across the board,” Andrea Pappalardo, MD, FAAAAI, FACAAI, associate professor of medicine and pediatrics
In a Dusty Corner of California, Trump's Threatened Cuts to Asthma Care Raise Fears
Esther Bejarano’s son was 11 months old when asthma landed him in the hospital. She didn’t know what had triggered his symptoms — neither she nor her husband had asthma — but she suspected it was the pesticides sprayed on the agricultural fields near her family’s home. Pesticides are a known contributor to asthma and are commonly used where Bejarano lives in California’s Imperial Valley, a landlocked region that straddles two counties on the U.S…
In One of the Nation’s Most Polluted Communities, Trump Terminates Funding for Air Monitoring
Residents in majority-Black north Birmingham, Alabama, have long been subjected to industrial pollution. The new administration has cut funding for a program aimed at measuring the impact. By Lee Hedgepeth BIRMINGHAM, Ala.-When Jilisa Milton received the grant termination letter, she wasn't surprised. She suspected this day would come.
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