Trump administration’s slashes to prevention and access expansion likely to erode progress on eliminating epidemicThe 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. Continue reading…
Source link : https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/mar/31/trump-administration-hiv-research-grant-cuts
Author : Rosalind Adams
Publish date : 2025-03-31 10:00:00
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Trump makes sweeping HIV research and grant cuts: ‘setting us back decades’
