Trump Administration May Scale Back HIV Prevention Efforts At CDC

The New York Times (3/19, Mandavilli) reports the Department of Health and Human Services is considering “shutting down the H.I.V. prevention division of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention and shifting some of its activities” to the Health Resources and Services Administration, according to federal officials. The Trump Administration has already curbed a number of HIV prevention efforts, including clinical trials, with the defunding of USAID and rollback of grants “related to transgender people, who are among those at highest risk of H.I.V.” A number of “Republican lawmakers have suggested that funding for H.I.V. should be commensurate with its national prevalence of less than 0.4 percent.”