There are fears of big cuts to US AIDS prevention
After the Trump Administration, the US HIV Epidemic Office has Been Shunted – It’s Just an Addendum to Tragedies on Top of Tragicity
The federal office devoted to end the nation’s HIV epidemic has been eliminated by the Trump administration. The administration has cut hundreds of grants for HIV and AIDS research.
The HHS infectious-disease office coordinated the implementation of the policy ending the HIV Epidemic in the U.S. The office employed around 50 people, according to US media reports.
The Trump administration is going to shrink the size of the federal government. The secretary of HHS announced last week that his agency would lose 20,000 employees, almost one quarter of the workforce. Kennedy has repeated his calls for the government to focus more on chronic diseases and less on infectious diseases.
Carl Schmid, co-chaired the Presidential Advisory Council on HIV/AIDS during the first Trump administration, got tears in his eyes when he heard about the layoffs. “These are people who have devoted their lives to ending HIV.”
Sara Zeigler, who worked for 20 years as the CDC’s associate director for policy until May 2022, fears that the lack of expertise of workers assuming other programmes’ activities will undermine US HIV prevention efforts. “It’s just an additional tragedy on top of tragedy,” Zeigler says. It will hurt people, cause people to die and cause tremendous increased costs to everyone in the country.
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Thousands of people who work at the CDC were notified by email today that they were subject to the Trump administration’s efforts to cull federal workforce jobs, Wired reports. The Washington Post reports that a number of top officials were put on administrative leave, lay off, or relocated to remote roles.
According to Jade Pagkas- Bather, an infectious disease doctor at the University of Chicago, they are going to have patients die. It is unnecessary and preventable death.
The FDA’s Center for Biologics Evaluation and Research (CBER) regulates vaccines, and director Peter Marks resigned on Friday, writing that “it has become clear that truth and transparency are not desired by the Secretary, but rather he wishes subservient confirmation of his misinformation and lies.”
“The FDA as we’ve known it is finished, with most of the leaders with institutional knowledge and a deep understanding of product development and safety no longer employed,” Robert Califf, FDA commissioner under Joe Biden and Barack Obama, wrote on LinkedIn today.
US President Donald Trump’s administration has fired around 50 people from the infectious-disease office at the Department of Health and Human Services which worked to end the country’s HIV epidemic. The office had coordinated the implementation of the policy ending the HIV Epidemic in the US. It employed around 50 people, according to media reports.