In his State of the Union address February 4, President Donald J. Trump announced his public health initiative to end the HIV epidemic in America. The effort was described in detail in a February 7 Journal of the American Medical Association editorial by the directors of several US Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) agencies, including NIH’s National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases. The initiative aims to reduce incident infections in the US by 75% within 5 years, and then by 90% within 10 years. This effort will leverage critical scientific advances in HIV prevention, diagnosis, treatment, and care by coordinating the programs, resources, and infrastructure of the NIH and other HHS agencies.
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