- United States
- Fla.
- Letter
I’m deeply concerned about reports that The Trump Administration is planning to completely eliminate the CDC’s Division of HIV Prevention.
If this happens, it would destroy any chance we have to end the HIV epidemic in the U.S., dismantling critical prevention efforts and leading to an unnecessary resurgence of this preventable disease.
The work of the CDC Division of HIV Prevention is essential and it is not something that can be covered by the Ryan White HIV/AIDS Program or by state budgets. If this funding is cut, the services it funds will not be replaced, meaning more people will contract HIV, more people will get sick, and more people will die.
I urge you to publicly condemn the proposed elimination of the CDC’s Division of HIV Prevention and to demand that the Trump administration honor its past commitments to ending the HIV epidemic in the US. This is not a partisan issue, it’s an issue of right and wrong. Please do the right thing.