Applause, with some raised eyebrows, to Trump’s pledge to end AIDS in the U.S. by 2030
http://www.sciencemag.org/news/2019/02/applause-some-raised-eyebrows-trump-s-pledge-end-aids-us-2030
A major challenge to ending AIDS in the U.S. is reaching the many HIV-infected immigrants who now slip through the cracks. This clinic in Miami’s Little Haiti neighborhood caters to HIV-infected clients who speak Creole.
When news leaked yesterday that U.S. President Donald Trump’s State of the Union address tonight would include a call for ramping up efforts to end the AIDS epidemic in the United States by 2030, many advocacy groups quickly weighed in with guffaws. The nonprofit ACT UP New York, under the rubric “know your scumbags,” published a list of how it says the Trump administration has “further marginalized people living with HIV.” The president of GLADD, which bills itself as the world’s largest LGBTQ media advocacy group, issued a statement that said the planned announcement was “undermined by the Administration’s record and rhetoric” on health issues, and was “designed to distract from what’s really happening behind the scenes every day.”