Kennedy Deep HHS Cut threatens the HIV/AIDS response

In the case of severely cutting its public health workforce, the Trump administration is undone decades to fight against the HIV epidemic and delay the upcoming progress.

When the Health and Human Services (HHS) Secretary, Robert F. Kennedy Jr. announced a plan to reduce its category staff by 20 percent, several sections of the disease control and resistance centers (CDC) centers were effectively eradicated, including programs focusing on HIV and AIDS, especially hard programs.

The entire staff of the infectious disease and HIV policy (ODP) office was eliminated and other sections dedicated to HIV were strictly reduced. The Global Health Center division of Global HIV and TB has lost about a quarter of their employees as well as Tuberculosis (NCHHSTP), National Hepatitis, STD, and Tuberculosis.

The five branches, including research, surveillance and resistance communications branches in the CDC section of HIV resistance, were completely eliminated.

Top workers, including NCHSTP Director Jonathan Marmin and Jane Mirazo, director of the National Allergy Institute and Infectivis Disease (NIID), were re -appointed in Indian healthcare.

The United States spends about $ 20 billion in its domestic response about HIV epidemic, which is about $ 2.615 trillion in the HHS’s 2020 fiscal year budget.

“I don’t know why HIV has been combined,” Carl Shamid, executive director of the HIV+Hepatitis Policy Institute.

One of the parties that were allowed to go for HIV prep. Shamid has expressed concern that their absence can affect the implementation of a new investigating preparatory drug, which only needs to be operated twice a year if approved.

In addition to getting rid of the entire branch for HIV response, the shamid mentions that hundreds of research grants have been stopped.

Many of these grants were probably closed because of the administration’s order to get rid of diversity, equity and inclusion (DII) among the federal agencies. Some cut funds went to HIV research, focused on trans, black and Latino people, groups that were unnecessarily affected by epidemic.

“I don’t understand what ‘no dei’ means.” If you ignore it it is going to get worse. “

Before becoming the HHS Secretary, the Kennedy virus publicly questioned a number of HIV epidemic issues, including whether AIDS was created. He has promoted the idea that the popular recreational drug of the AIDS homosexual community can be by the poppers.

Kennedy earlier claimed that long -time NIAID Director Antony Faisi Effective AIDS Treatment also expressed suspicion of the effectiveness of the first drug asidotimedine (AZT) approved by the Administration of Food and Drugs for HIV and AIDS treatment.

When not giving up treatment, HIV can be AIDS, it is a true recognition of both the CDC and the World Health Organization.

Beyond the theory of conspiracy, he echos in the current administration of how the HIV pandemic was treated in the past, when the government officials morally made the behavior of the affected people and the behavior of words like “gay” and “condoms”. Now, terms like “Trans” and “DI” are being censored.

Federal reaction to HIV identified the opposite of President Trump’s first term, when he started an initiative to finish the HIV epidemic by 20.

“I think there are some new people, you know, and I don’t think they are reflected about where the country is,” Shamid said about the current Trump administration and its activities about the HIV epidemic. “It doesn’t look like it’s too Trumpian.”

Changes in HIV reactions will also affect the attempt to fight against other sexual infections (STIs).

David Sea Harvey, executive director of the National Alliance of STD directors, said, “The response to HIV and STI in the United States is unintestrated.”

Harvey said, “What happens to a program affects the other program. What these two distinct issues affect what the United States also influences our greater power to deal with infectious diseases”.

According to Harvey, the federal government provides most STI funds for some state health department, which means a strict decrease at the federal level will be “destructive” for them, especially for “rural, low-income southern states”.

Two branches of the CDC’s STI section were also eliminated in Kennedy Cooling: STD Laboratory Branch and Disease interference and response branch. Cutting these branches, ODPs and HIV branches in combination with Harvey means “many, many years of scientific and administrative skills to lose”.

The STI rate in the United States has been increasing over the past two decades, and has increased by 5 percent since the 20th. It seems to be flat in STI infection in recent years. The number of STIs in the United States from 2022 to 2023 has decreased by 1.8 percent.

Experts say that these categories are reducing and eliminated in the infectious disease to concentrate on chronic illnesses against Kennedy’s plan. HIV, while conducting today’s treatment progress, can still cause lifetime conditions and other STIs chronic illness.

“HIV and STIS fall into the structure of chronic diseases,” Harvey said. “And we can never prevent these diseases in this country and then if they do that, we can do much more in this country to provide universal access to tests and treatment.”