Advocates Hope For Continued Action From Trump On HIV

HIV advocates are calling on President-elect Donald Trump to fully fund and expand his previous administration’s initiative that increased testing, treatment and prevention programs for HIV/AIDS, and to base policy decisions on science. Carl Schmid, executive director of the HIV+Hepatitis Policy Institute, noted in a statement Wednesday (Nov. 6) Trump announced in his 2019 State of the Union speech the HIV epidemic would be eliminated within 10 years in the United States, leading to the administration’s Ending the HIV Epidemic...