POLITICO: Inside Trump’s reversal on HIV

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The president’s first-term pledge to end HIV in the U.S. by 2030 has evaporated in his second term.

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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.

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Source : POLITICO

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