Donald Trump announces strategy to end HIV transmission in 2030

President Donald Trump plans to announce during his speech the State of the Union Tuesday, a health plan that would end HIV infections in the United States by 2030.

People close to the White House have estimated that the ambitious goal was within the reach of the press, according to a statement released Tuesday. Policy and The Washington Post.

Alex Azar, secretary of the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS), and director of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), Robert Redfield, reportedly supported the strategy.

One of the sources said the speech was not finished yet, but the Ministry of Health lobbied the White House for the President of the United States to highlight, in the evening, the strategy against HIV. A White House spokesman declined to comment on the case.

The health department is also planning a broader launch of the strategy this week.

According to data from the Centers for Disease Control and Detection, More than one million Americans are HIV positive and about 40,000 are infected each year.

As part of Trump's HIV strategy, Health officials will spend the first five years focusing on communities in about 20 states, where most HIV infections are concentrated.

The ultimate goal is to stop new infections over a 10-year period, two officials said.

The strategy has been strongly shaped by Redfield, a leading AIDS researcher. who was chosen to head the Center for Disease Control last year.

Redfield said last year at a meeting of the CDC that the end of AIDS by 2025 was possible with existing public health tools, like the most widespread use of condoms.

Brett Giroir, the Under Secretary of Health at HHS who oversaw much of the opioid work in the Trump administration, He was also hired to lead the implementation of the HIV strategy.

The Trump administration has sometimes had a complicated relationship with the HIV / AIDS community. The president has repeatedly tried to suppress the presidential emergency plan for the fight against AIDS, better known as PEPFAR, a multi-billion dollar initiative launched by former President George W. Bush, which would have saved more than 17 million dollars. of lives around the world. However, In December 2018, Trump signed an extension of the program that received bipartisan support.

HIV-AIDS researchers have criticized Trump's health department for its actions, led by Giroir and supported by anti-abortion advocates seeking alternatives in fetal tissue investigations. HIV-AIDS researchers say fetal tissue is needed to develop a potential vaccine against the disease.

In 2015, 39,513 people in the United States were diagnosed with HIV infection. The number of new diagnoses decreased by 19% between 2005 and 2014.