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‘Severe and irreversible consequences’: HHS dismantling sparks calls for reinstatements, RFK Jr.’s resignation

by | Apr 10, 2025

The national nonprofit HIV+Hepatitis Policy Institute is calling on the HHS to restore the workers at numerous offices including the Office of Infectious Diseases and HIV Policy and the HHS Office of Minority Health, a division supporting the Ryan White HIV/AIDS Program and the Bureau of Primary Health Care at the Health Resources and Services Administration (HRSA). In his first term, President Donald Trump engaged in a campaign to end the HIV epidemic, but that campaign was conducted by a now-shuttered office, reported Fierce Healthcare. “It’s just so ironic that DOGE wants to increase government efficiency—well this is the office that did that,” Carl Schmid, executive director of the HIV+Hepatitis Policy Institute, told Fierce.

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Deep cuts in LGBTQ research field expected to affect Louisiana

by | Apr 4, 2025

Fears are growing that the trump administration may eliminate all funding for the CDC’s HIV prevention program. Last week the U.S. government canceled nearly 70 LGBTQ health grants to 46 institutions totaling nearly $40 million when awarded. Those decisions are likely to have a big impact in Louisiana which has the 4th highest HIV diagnosis rate in the country. Carl Schmid is the executive director of the HIV+Hepatitis Policy Institute. He tells Red River Radio News that right now the U.S. sees 32,000 new HIV infections every year. “It’s just going to lead to more infection, more lives turned upside down, more families turned upside down, more HIV in the community which then just leads to more infections.”

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‘Cost us more in the long run’: Federal actions reverse progress on HIV epidemic, experts warn

by | Apr 4, 2025

In his first term, President Donald Trump launched a campaign to end the HIV epidemic. That very campaign was coordinated by one of the now-cut HHS offices. “It’s just so ironic that DOGE wants to increase government efficiency—well this is the office that did that,” Carl Schmid, executive director of the HIV+Hepatitis Policy Institute, told Fierce Healthcare. Schmid previously served as co-chair of the Presidential Advisory Council on HIV/AIDS and of the Ending the HIV Epidemic Subcommittee.

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