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Trump Administration May Cut CDC's HIV Prevention Division

Journal Gazette 21 Mar 2025
The Trump administration may eliminate the CDC’s HIV Prevention Division. Experts warn this could lead to higher HIV rates ... Centers for Disease Control and Prevention’s (CDC) Division on HIV Prevention, sparking concerns among public health experts.
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'We must be counted': Trump administration aims to cut 'critical' data on LGBT youth

Milwaukee Journal Sentinel 21 Mar 2025
The Trump administration has recently targeted HIV-related information in its attempts to remove "gender ideology" from federal websites, including a page on "HIV Facts in the United States," which ...
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Leading LGBTQ, HIV, and Health Organizations Across U.S. Condemn Trump Administration’s Move to Close CDC ...

The Washington Informer 20 Mar 2025
Thirteen leading LGBTQ+, HIV, and health organizations are uniting to raise awareness about the Trump administration's plan to defund critical HIV prevention efforts at the ...
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Measles cases are on the rise in the US. Could it make a comeback in Rhode Island?

The Providence Journal 20 Mar 2025
A quarter century after measles was eliminated in the United States, the country has had increasing cases in recent years, with 301 confirmed cases across 15 states, including in Rhode Island, and two deaths this year.
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Trump administration weighing future of CDC's HIV prevention division

Usatoday 19 Mar 2025
The CDC's $1.3 billion Division of HIV Prevention is tasked with tracking infections across the United States and promoting testing and prevention, including the use of HIV prevention medications, also known as PrEP.
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Trump’s policies threaten his 2019 vow to end HIV, experts say

Roll Call 19 Mar 2025
end HIV in the United States by 2030 ... “We’re in a wait-and-see pattern for a lot of these programs right now,” said Carl Baloney Jr., CEO-elect of AIDS United, a nonprofit focused on ending the HIV epidemic in the U.S.
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Trump administration considers eliminating Center for Disease Control’s HIV prevention division

Anadolu Agency 19 Mar 2025
... new HIV infections. Jesse Milan, the CEO of AIDS United, a nonprofit dedicated to HIV advocacy, called the potential elimination of the CDC’s HIV prevention division “devastating.”.
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Health Minister vows no South African will be denied ARVs after Pepfar funding cut

Independent online (SA) 18 Mar 2025
... community centre and launched a new HIV/Aids treatment campaign targeted at reaching 1,1 million persons linked to the 95-95-95 targets that were adopted from the United Nations Programme on HIV/Aids.
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Protect Medicaid — Black New Yorkers’ Health Depends On It

Jacksonville Free Press 21 Mar 2025
As the largest source of insurance for people living with HIV in the United States, Medicaid is crucial to the fight against HIV and has been instrumental in New York’s efforts to end the epidemic.
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Alabama still fighting HIV: 'In the South is where we have the majority of the problems':

Tuscaloosanews.com 14 Mar 2025
The organization owns more than 100 units, a 40-bed emergency shelter, a facility for people with both HIV and mental health diagnoses and a residential substance abuse program ... HIV stigma creates barriers.
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The endgame to HIV/Aids

Mail Guardian South Africa 13 Mar 2025
Consequently, at the United Nations General Assembly’s Millennium Summit in 2000, world leaders set a specific goal of stopping and reversing the spread of HIV ... It now seems the United States’ shutdown ...
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Across Global South, USAID’s demise raises fears of malaria, TB resurgence

Al Jazeera 13 Mar 2025
Founded by Republican President George W Bush 20 years ago, the projects are credited with saving more than 32 million lives, according to the Joint United Nations Programme on HIV/AIDS (UNAIDS) and archived USAID data.
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Our global anti-AIDS program has saved millions of lives — improve it, don't kill it

The Hill 12 Mar 2025
According to an analysis by the United Nations AIDS agency, UNAIDS, a long-term loss of PEPFAR funding would lead to a 10-fold increase in HIV-related deaths globally, costing around 6.3 million lives by the end of the decade.
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