State Department reportedly informed employees earlier this month to refrain from commemorative messaging on World AIDS Day.
The State Department will no longer commemorate World AIDS Day with public messaging, ending a decades-long tradition of the administration recognizing those who have died of the disease and raising awareness on December 1.
Earlier this month, the State Department reportedly instructed employees and grantees not to use federal funding to commemorate the day as part of a federal government policy to “refrain from messaging on any commemorative days,” the New York Times reported Wednesday (26 November).
That includes refraining from “publicly promoting World AIDS Day through any communication channels, including social media, media engagements, speeches, or other public-facing messaging,” according to an email seen by NYT and the Substack “To End a Plague… Again.”
Read the full news story at The Independent.
Source : The Independent
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