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What will the cuts at the Centers for Disease Control do to global programs?
The US Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) will have to reduce spending on contracts by at least a third, Robert Steinbrook, health research group director at the Public Citizen, said. This comes after President Donald Trump ordered a 25% reduction in staff and 35% reduction in contracts for the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC).
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There are fears of big cuts to US AIDS prevention
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.
Read MoreThere are fears of big cuts to US AIDS prevention
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.
Read MoreThe Trump team withdrew millions of dollars for addiction and mental health care
US President Donald Trump’s administration has cut 20,000 jobs in the Health and Human Services (HHS) department, as it restructures the department. The department includes the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services, the Food and Drug Administration, the National Institutes of Health (NIH) and other smaller divisions.
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There is anxiety over the future of its grants
US President Donald Trump’s administration has barred federal agencies from awarding any federal funding for scientific research. This comes after the administration froze all federal grants and loans to align it with his Executive Orders. It also cancelled review panels for research-grant funding and halted communications.
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Despite lawsuits challenging Trump’s order, the research grant from the NIH is still frozen
US President Donald Trump’s administration has ordered Federal employees to post notices at least 35 days in advance of grant-review meetings, the Department of Government Efficiency said. If federal employees don’t do so, they would face “adverse consequences”, the department added. The notice will have to be posted at least 15 days prior to the grant-review meetings.
Read MoreThe data purge started by Donald Trump
US President Donald Trump’s administration has ordered agencies to “end all agency programs that use taxpayer money to promote or reflectgender ideology”. It added that agencies must take down all outward-facing media ( websites, social media accounts, etc.) that promotes or promotes gender ideology. The order also said agencies must make sure the intimate spaces are designated according to sex and not gender identity.
Read MoreRFK Jr. fact-checks: Antidepressants are harder to quit than heroin
US President Donald Trump’s nominee to be the country’s Health and Humans Services Secretary Joe Kennedy has been criticised for his plan to build “healing farms” for people affected by addiction. Maia Szalavitz, author and activist who used heroin and other drugs before entering recovery, said, “I think [ Kennedy’s plan] would be an enormous step backward.”
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There has been a flurry of executive orders by Trump
US President Donald Trump signed an emergency order to withdraw from the World Health Organization (WHO) on Monday. In 1948, a joint resolution was passed by both Houses of Congress, stating that US needed to give the WHO one year’s notice if they wanted to withdraw. The emergency order will allow US Agencies to identify energy projects where federal regulations and laws are holding up progress.
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America needs more Jimmy Carters
Following the demise of former US President Jimmy Carter, US President Donald Trump said, “I have lost a brilliant leader and an even brillianter gentleman.” Trump added on Twitter, “Condolences to his family, to the country, and to all of us who were fortunate to have known him.” Carter had served as the president from 1977 to 1981.
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