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HIV prevention was making great strides. Then Trump’s budget axe fell
CDC layoffs and program cuts gutted branches responsible for a slew of HIV prevention services, imperiling decades of progress.
Over the last 40 years, powerful new medicines and sprawling public health programs have turned a deadly HIV outbreak into a manageable epidemic authorities could imagine one day coming to a close.
The Trump administration’s cuts to staff at the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention and to clinical trials now threaten to unwind that progress, affected CDC researchers and outside HIV experts warn.
