The article discusses the detrimental impact of recent cuts to HIV research and treatment programs by the Trump administration, which threaten to undo significant advancements made over the past decades. It highlights the importance of learning from the early negligence in addressing the HIV crisis in the 1980s, emphasizing the need for community engagement and activism in public health. The piece warns that current policies are undermining established public health principles that have been crucial in reducing infections and supporting vulnerable populations.
In the early 1980s, the virus's ravages were treated as 'something that happens over there, only to those people,' highlighting negligence's deadly consequences.
The Trump administration is now tearing down that legacy, cutting funding and programs for HIV research, treatment, and prevention, effectively watching the field burn to the ground.
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