During his 2019 State of the Union address, President Donald Trump laid out an ambitious goal: end HIV in the United States by 2030.
But six years later, his actions are actively undermining that effort, say people who have supported the Ending the HIV Epidemic initiative, and the administration is considering cuts to roughly $1.3 billion in prevention funding housed at the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, according to two sources familiar with the discussions.
“The success of the “Ending the HIV Epidemic” initiative is in peril,” said Colleen Kelley, chair of the HIV Medicine Association’s board of directors, referring to the initiative launched by the first Trump administration. “Not only will we not end the HIV epidemic with the current administration’s policies, we could reverse these gains and go back to the dark days of the ’80s, when people died from HIV every day.”
