Not a single day goes by without the Americans discovering their President’s lack of interest or incompetence. And the health sector is one of the most exposed to Donald Trump’s dismantling enterprise.
After questioning theObamacare and the severe cuts planned in the research sector, it is in the fight against AIDS that the tenant of the White House is once again being talked about.
“The president has no strategy to fight the current HIV/AIDS epidemic”, just wrote in Newsweek representatives of the committee officially responsible for advising the American president on these matters. Six of the 25 members (1) slammed the door of this body, specifies AFP, to denounce this “disinterest” of the executive.
In the United States, 1.1 million people are infected with HIV, more than 15,000 die from it and 50,000 new infections are recorded every year.
But above all, less than half of the patients (40%) have access to life-saving treatments. And, in this context, the resigners say that the government is “supporting laws that will harm people with HIV and will interrupt or reverse important progress made in the fight against the disease”.
For them, Donald Trump “does not take seriously the current epidemic and the needs of people with HIV”.
(1) Scott Schoettes, Lucy Bradley-Springer, Gina Brown, Ulysses Burley, Michelle Ogle and Grissel Granados.
