Trump launched an ambitious effort to end HIV. House Republicans want to defund it.

A World AIDS Day event at The Wall Las Memorias AIDS Monument on December 1, 2022 in Los Angeles. There are about 35,000 new HIV infections per year in the U.S.

Republicans in Congress back substantial cuts to the budget of the CDC, taking aim at one of former President Donald Trump’s major health programs: a push to end the HIV epidemic in the U.S.

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