TAG joins call for the resignation of HHS Secretary RFK, Jr., as a “danger to the public’s health”

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Aligns with American Public Health Association and others in calling for a return to ethics, transparency, and truth in US science.

April 10, 2025 – Treatment Action Group (TAG) decries the vicious and inchoate attacks on the US Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) since the advent of the new administration, which have escalated significantly over the past two weeks. Among targeted programs, many are related to the infectious diseases HIV, TB, and hepatitis C.

TAG’s Basic Science, Vaccines, and Cure Project Director, Richard Jefferys, said, “AIDS denialist conspiracy theorist Robert F. Kennedy, Jr. is presiding over an incoherent and opaque wrecking of essential taxpayer-supported work at HHS, threatening health and lives in the United States and globally.”

Read the full press release here.

 

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