White House makes sweeping HIV research and grant cuts: ‘setting us back decades’ | Administration’s slashes to prevention and access expansion likely to erode progress on eliminating epidemic
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/mar/31/trump-administration-hiv-research-grant-cuts
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From the article: The federal government has cancelled dozens of grants to study how to prevent new HIV infections and expand access to care, decimating progress toward eliminating the epidemic in the United States, scientists say.
Over the last month, more than 300 research projects funded by the National Institutes of Health (NIH) have been terminated – 65 of them were specifically related to researching advancements in HIV care. Some scientists were notified about losing funding as recently as last Thursday. NIH, a division of the Department of Health and Human Services, is the largest funding source of medical research in the world, leaving many scientists scrambling to figure out how to continue their work.
“The loss of this research could very well result in a resurgence of HIV that becomes more generalized in this country,” said Julia Marcus, a professor at Harvard Medical School who recently had two of her grants cancelled. “These drastic cuts are rapidly destroying the infrastructure of scientific research in this country and we are going to lose a generation of scientists.”
In 2012, the FDA approved pre-exposure prophylaxis (PrEP), an antiviral drug taken once a day that is highly successful at preventing new HIV infections. While the drug has been a powerful tool to contain the virus, inequities remain in accessing those drugs and sustaining a daily treatment. Despite major progress, there are still 30,000 new infections each year in the US.
This is a significant setback for HIV research and prevention efforts. It could reverse decades of progress in combating the epidemic.
All these closet republiKKKans in the closet with rent boy lovers better start rubbering up then!
Because they weren’t using the money for HIV. Just like the Cancer cuts they don’t use the money for what they say they are. There are cures for both these things that haven’t been shared with the public our Government is a farce.
Well, if history has proven anything, we’re going to see a resurgence in hiv+ people who are being infected by their closeted, conservative spouses.
This actually terrifies me as a gay person because couldn’t it cause HIV to evolve and become more resistant to drugs like Prep? Preventing the spread of HIV benefits everybody – not just ‘the gays’. In fact it’s spreading more among straight people now since gay people predominantly take Prep to prevent it.
This is targeted at homosexuals, because they believe that only homosexuals get HIV/AIDS.
It’s funny how many of them are repressed homosexuals.