In 2019, President Trump stood before Congress and the American people and pledged to end the HIV epidemic in the U.S. by 2030. Now, his administration is reportedly considering dismantling a program — the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention’s Division of HIV Prevention — necessary to achieve that goal. Taking the CDC out of the fight against HIV would be a huge mistake.
As leaders of Mecklenburg County’s health department in North Carolina and Shelby County’s health department in Tennessee, respectively, we’ve seen firsthand how advances in science, investments in research, a greater emphasis on prevention, and better access to more effective treatments have saved lives and improved health. New HIV cases in the U.S. have dropped by more than 75% compared with their peak in the mid-1980s, and the death rate has plummeted.
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