Over the past several weeks we have seen drastic and devastating cuts to HIV treatment, prevention and care programs here in the U.S. The Reunion Project recognizes that these cuts have the potential to undo decades of progress. According to a statement issued by NMAC, “As part of a broad restructuring ordered by HHS Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr., the entire staff of the Office of Infectious Disease and HIV/AIDS Policy (OIDP) has been laid off. The Office of Minority Health has been dissolved, and major HIV prevention programs at the CDC have been slashed, forcing state and local health departments, community-based organizations, to severely curtail and in some cases eliminate services in the most underserved communities.”
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