CDC site scrubs HIV content following Trump DEI policies

Contributing sentiments towards policy:

55% : The CDC began removing all content related to gender identity on Friday, according to one government staffer.
53% : While research indicates that transgender women in particular have a high HIV rate, the CDC’s routine HIV surveillance reports do not break down the data according to gender identity.
51% : The bulk of federal spending on HIV research, including on experimental vaccines, treatments and cure therapies, comes from the NIH.
48% : ”These sweeping directives from the Trump administration, health experts say, threaten to dismantle the CDC’s HIV prevention division, as addressing disparities based on race, sex or gender identity is fundamental to HIV prevention work.
41% : The executive order, signed by Trump last week, proclaims that the U.S. government will recognize only two sexes — male and female — and end what it characterizes as “radical and wasteful” DEI spending.
40% : By early Friday afternoon, in addition to the main HIV page, a hub for HIV data, resources for health care providers, pages on racial disparities, another on transgender people, gay and bisexual men, information about ongoing youth risk behaviors and details about the federal “Ending the HIV Epidemic” plan — which Trump endorsed in his 2019 State of the Union address — were also removed, along with HIV pages on deaths and diagnoses in the U.S.

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