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RIP #CDC

“Fleming noted that he was particularly concerned that #HIV prevention efforts had been “substantially cut,” that the National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health (#NIOSH ) is ‘essentially gone,’ and that staff members who worked on cancer clustershad been fired.”
“The April 2 letter also listed asthma, tobacco use, violence prevention, lead poisoning, reproductive health, global health threats, birth defects, and #disability and injury prevention as CDC programs affected by the firings.”
jamanetwork.com/journals/jama/

#HIV-#Prävention unter Druck: Kürzungen gefährden globale Fortschritte: Sparmaßnahmen und gestrichene Forschungsgelder, dazu eine stockende Einführung eines als „Wundermittel“ gepriesenen #HIV-Präventionsmedikaments. Das alles könnte Millionen Menschenleben gefährden, sagen Gesundheitsexperten. euractiv.de/section/gesundheit

Vulture: The List Keepers. “Over the years, people in the middle of the crisis started keeping their own lists of the lost — those records were small personal acts of grief and tribute. Giving the dressers, the hairstylists, the assistant stage managers, the junior choreographers, the chorus boys, the makeup artists, the rehearsal pianists, the accountants, and the pit musicians who died […]

https://rbfirehose.com/2025/04/15/vulture-the-list-keepers/

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"A top Centers for Disease Control and Prevention official told staff this week to start planning for the agency’s splintering.

Several parts of CDC — mostly those devoted to health threats that aren’t infectious — are being spun off into the soon-to-be-created Administration for a Healthy America, the agency official told senior leaders in calls and meetings."

apnews.com/article/cdc-hiv-adm

Many have called Trump the worst president ever. However, under his 1st presidency, he did not come close to causing the amount of death that occurred under the leadership of Bush Jr., whose War on Terror brought him into the top 20 of most murderous regimes in the history of earth.

But Trump 2.0 is set to be far more deadly. His cuts to HIV program funding in Africa, alone, is predicted to result in over 500,000 deaths of children, along with 2.8 million orphaned when their parents die of AIDS.

cidrap.umn.edu/hivaids/us-cuts

CIDRAPUS cuts to HIV programs in Africa threaten to set progress back to 'dark ages,' experts say

Who Will Care for #Infants With #HIV Overseas?
The consequences of# mother-to-child transmission can be enormous, a new study suggests. But the US has dismissed experts working to solve the problem. The Trump administration has dismissed the few remaining #health officials who oversaw care for some of the world’s most vulnerable people: more than 500,000 #children and more than 600,000 #pregnant women with H.I.V. in low-income countries.
nytimes.com/2025/04/08/health/
archive.ph/H0agt

A clinic in Johannesburg closed after President Trump’s executive order halting foreign aid.
The New York Times · All Federal Experts on H.I.V. Prevention in Children Overseas Were DismissedBy Apoorva Mandavilli