The president’s first-term pledge to end HIV in the U.S. by 2030 has evaporated in his second term.
In 2019, midway through his marathon and frequently combative State of the Union address, President Donald Trump made a promise that garnered him a rare bipartisan standing ovation.
“Together,” he pledged from the podium, “we will defeat AIDS in America.”
Seven years later, Trump once again stunned many of those former health lieutenants — this time by systematically undermining his first-term efforts to fight HIV.
Source : POLITICO
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