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Federal budget cuts to Medicaid, HIV prevention programs lead to concerns in fight to end HIV/AIDS epidemic

The federal budget has some concerned for the future of the fight against HIV/AIDS in the United States. The budget makes deep cuts to Medicaid and in 2026, it almost completely slashes funding to the ...
STAT

The CDC’s ‘disease detective’ program turns 75

Chow is an alumnus of the Epidemic Intelligence Service program (2018-2020) and serves as the president-elect for the ...
STAT

Dismantling the CDC’s Division of HIV Prevention will cost far more than it saves

Washington is director of Mecklenburg County Public Health in North Carolina. Taylor is health officer and director of the Shelby County Health Department in Tennessee. As leaders of Mecklenburg ...
Health AffairsOpinion

A Functional Vaccine Against HIV: Lenacapavir Demands A New Prevention Infrastructure

Deploying lenacapavir will require rethinking who delivers HIV prevention, how it is financed, and what policy infrastructure ...
The New York Times

Regulators Approve a Twice-Yearly Shot to Prevent H.I.V. Infection

The drug could change the course of the AIDS epidemic. But the Trump administration has gutted the programs that might have paid for it in low-income countries. By Apoorva Mandavilli The Food and Drug ...
The Conversation

HIV knows no borders, and the Trump administration’s new strategy leave Americans vulnerable – an HIV‑prevention expert explains

Protecting public health abroad benefits Americans. In a globalized world, diseases and their social and economic impacts do not stay within national boundaries. Increased rates of untreated HIV in ...
The New York Times

Future Free from HIV

Ending the HIV epidemic is as urgent as ever. Scientific research has helped make tremendous progress in the last four decades, but every day, approximately 100 people in the U.S. and 3,500 worldwide ...