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Last night (February 5) during his State of the Union address, President Donald Trump announced an ambitious goal to end the AIDS epidemic in the US by 2030. Responses from scientists and nonprofit groups ranged from enthusiastic to skeptical.
“Together, we will defeat AIDS in America and beyond,” Trump said in his speech. “My budget will ask Democrats and Republicans to make the needed commitment to eliminate the HIV epidemic in the United States within 10 years.”
However, Trump did not provide details on the plan, including the amount of money he would request, where it would come from, and what exactly might be done. Soon after his address, the Department of Health and Human Services released a factsheet about the plan, Science reports.
“There were high expectations that the president would use this opportunity to announce something bold on HIV in the U.S.,” Jen Kates, Kaiser ...
