Yale University

The U.S. really could end AIDS — if the Trump administration gets out of the way

Gregg Gonsalves, Assistant Professor at Yale School of Public Health and a CIRA affiliate, examines President Donald Trump's plan to combat the AIDS epidemic in the United States and eliminate HIV transmission by 2030. Announced last week during the President's State of the Union address, the plan will rely on testing and treating people living with HIV in just under 50 counties where the HIV burden is the greatest, as well as seven states that have significant rural epidemics. The effort will also focus on getting pre-exposure prophylaxis out to people at highest risk of contracting HIV in those same places.



Published: Monday, February 18, 2019