An ambitious plan President Donald Trump announced in his State of The Union speech to eliminate new diagnoses of HIV and AIDS in the United States by 2030 is feasible—but it fails to address the widespread prevention efforts necessary in black communities.
The proposal includes funding existing prevention programs and providing HIV prevention medication to those at highest risk in “hot spots” across the U.S. and Puerto Rico; identifying where the virus is spreading in real time and deploying resources to those areas; and creating an HIV HealthForce to support these efforts nationwide. Read More
