Advisory Board March 20, 2025
The Trump administration is preparing to cut more jobs from HHS, according to people familiar with the plans who spoke anonymously to POLITICO, in today’s roundup of the news in healthcare politics.
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HHS considers cutting HIV prevention funding
HHS is considering drastically cutting the federal government’s funding for domestic HIV prevention and shutting down the HIV prevention division of CDC, potentially shifting some of these responsibilities to another agency, according to sources who spoke to the Wall Street Journal and the New York Times.
CDC’s HIV prevention department funds state and local surveillance programs for HIV, syringe services, and community-outreach initiatives. During the 2023 fiscal year, CDC spent around $1.3 billion on the prevention of...