Trump wants an end to HIV in the United States by 2030

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published 6 February 2019

President Trump announced in his State of the Union address on Tuesday that by 2030, he wants to see HIV eradicated in the United States.

"In recent years, we have made remarkable progress in the fight against HIV and AIDS," Trump said. "Scientific breakthroughs have brought a once-distant dream within reach. My budget will ask Democrats and Republicans to make the needed commitment to eliminate the HIV epidemic in the United States within 10 years. We have made incredible strides, incredible. Together, we will defeat AIDS in America, and beyond."

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Trump didn't go into detail about the strategy to combat HIV, but The Washington Post reports that unspecified resources will be sent to 48 counties and "hot spots" with high rates of infections. No one is working in the Office of National AIDS Policy, and until late December, no one was on the Presidential Advisory Council on HIV/AIDS, after several members quit in protest over Trump's lack of action; Trump later fired the rest.

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Catherine Garcia has worked as a senior writer at The Week since 2014. Her writing and reporting have appeared in Entertainment Weekly, The New York Times, Wirecutter, NBC News and "The Book of Jezebel," among others. She's a graduate of the University of Redlands and the Columbia University Graduate School of Journalism.

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