"We know that #telehealth cannot bridge every gap; however, the majority of the services #PPMI provides will remain available via the Virtual Health Center & PP Direct, including #MedicationAbortion, #birthcontrol, #HIV services, #UTI treatment, emergency #contraception, #gender-affirming care, & yeast infection treatment. Learn more at ppmi.org/telehealth."
Normally I wouldn't be in favor of protesters disrupting a Congressional hearing, but absolutely nothing going on right now is normal.
Sideshow Bob is HHS Secretary and an #AIDS denialist. This regime is destroying #HIV prevention in the US and globally. Normal means of political engagement are under attack by fascists.
So a veteran AIDS activist screamed " #RFKJr kills people with AIDS!" in the hearing.
https://www.yahoo.com/news/rfk-jr-visibly-startled-protesters-214949444.html
Video of the incident:
#LGBTQ #HIV #GraphicDesign #ephemera #PublicHealth
'Harvard Library has digitized more than 3,000 posters related to a single major public health crisis: the HIV/AIDS epidemic. The posters come from numerous countries around the world and span roughly 1990 to 2004. The collection tells a story, said Yarnell, of what the public health establishment has learned about what messages work, and why. '
https://news.harvard.edu/gazette/story/2025/05/when-graphic-design-saves-lives/
"Gates himself announced this week that his own charitable organization, the Gates Foundation, is on track to go out of business by 2045 because by that time it will have completed its mission of giving away virtually all of Gates’s personal fortune."
~ Doktor Zoom
"'The picture of the world's richest man killing the world's poorest children is not a pretty one,' Gates told the Financial Times. 'I'd love for him to go in and meet the children that have now been infected with HIV because he cut that money.'"
~ Caleb Ecarma
#Musk #DOGE #USAID #HIV #children #BillGates
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https://www.muskwatch.com/p/the-worlds-richest-man-killing-the
{HIV} Trump Administration Slashes Research Into L.G.B.T.Q. Health - The New York Times https://www.google.com/url?rct=j&sa=t&url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.nytimes.com%2F2025%2F05%2F04%2Fhealth%2Ftrump-administration-slashes-research-into-lgbtq-health.html&ct=ga&cd=CAIyGTY4MDYxNGRhNGExYjBlYWE6Y2E6ZW46Q0E&usg=AOvVaw2IjYR1nKfcyKExkWaCW144&utm_source=dlvr.it&utm_medium=mastodon #HIV
#Trump’s proposal slashes the #NIH #budget to $27B from ~$48B. The budget doc delivers a duplicitous rebuke to NIH, saying: “NIH has broken the trust of the American people w/wasteful spending, misleading information, risky research & the promotion of dangerous ideologies that undermine public health.” [written from Bizarro World]
The budget purports to refocus the #CDC on #infectious #diseases, but slashes funding for viral #hepatitis, #HIV & #STDs, lumping them into a single program at $300M.
Headline: Layoffs hit Seattle’s Fred Hutch Cancer Center amid federal funding uncertainty
Source: @geekwire
From the article: "Seattle-based Fred Hutch Cancer Center laid off employees this week, impacting the nonprofit’s HIV-related work and IT department.
The center, which employs more than 5,700 people, did not share how many workers were let go in total.
The HIV-related layoffs were due to a reduction in federal grants targeting the virus, said Fred Hutch spokesperson Christina VerHeul.
The IT workforce cuts were “part of a strategically planned reorganization of the information technology department,” she said via email, adding “these changes are not related to federal funding.”
URL for article because thumbnail is not displaying:
https://www.geekwire.com/2025/layoffs-hit-fred-hutch-cancer-center-amid-federal-funding-uncertainty/?mc_cid=b120b5607e&mc_eid=a69727e332
(28 Apr) Ohio ACT UP chapter meets to discuss ‘shocking’ leaked budget that slashes HIV/AIDS funding
AIDS advocacy group ACT UP Cleveland meets to discuss plans to stockpile antiviral medications ahead of proposed federal cuts
https://s.faithcollapsing.com/yzqnb
Archive: ia: https://s.faithcollapsing.com/wfsvp
#act-up #gil-kudrin #health-and-human-services #hhs #hiv #hiv-&-aids #lgbt-center-of-greater-cleveland #ryan-white #ryan-white-care-act
This shot might protect against #HIV
Promising results from an early-stage trial suggest #lenacapavir #injections might offer long-lasting protection.
When it came to innovations in biotech, this year there was a clear winner: lenacapavir, was found to prevent HIV infections in 100% of the women and girls who received it in #clinicaltrial. The drug was safe, too (it’s already approved to treat HIV). And it only needed to be injected twice a year to offer full protection.
https://www.technologyreview.com/2025/03/14/1113225/annual-shot-protect-against-hiv/
Today in Labor History April 25, 1993: Over one million people marched in Washington, D.C., for gay, lesbian, bisexual, & transgender rights. This was in the era of Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell discrimination within the military and Colorado’s constitutional amendment invalidating laws that protect LGBTQ rights. The marchers had seven basic demands. The 1st demand was a civil rights bill and ending all discrimination by state and federal governments, including the repeal of all sodomy laws. They also demanded more funding for AIDS research and treatment; an end to discrimination in adoption and child custody; full inclusion of all LGBTQ people in the education system; and an end to all discrimination and violence against LGBTQ people. However, in their platform, they also demanded these same rights and protections for ALL people, especially people of color, people with disabilities, women, nonbinary and trans people, and working class and poor people.
One of the truly puzzling things about the #HHS budget cuts is the slashing of funding for programs aimed at stopping spread of #HIV. Brett Giroir, from the first Trump administration, finds it puzzling too. https://www.statnews.com/2025/04/23/trump-plan-end-hiv-aids-at-risk-brett-giroir-rfk-doge/
Before the case was narrowed to the #AppointmentsClause issue, the lawsuit included a #religious objection to being required to cover pre-exposure #prophylaxis for #HIV. They claimed that such drugs "facilitate & encourage homosexual behavior, prostitution, sexual promiscuity & intravenous drug use."
(17 Apr) Political action group ACT UP Cleveland meets for the first time in over 20 years amid threats to HIV/AIDS funding
‘We have lived this nightmare before.’
https://s.faithcollapsing.com/gv6m1
Archive: ais: https://archive.md/wip/23GNQ ia: https://s.faithcollapsing.com/cpgsx
#act-up #gay-ohio #hiv-&-aids #lgbt-ohio #lgbtq-ohio #ryan-white-care-act #transgender-ohio
RIP #CDC
“Fleming noted that he was particularly concerned that #HIV prevention efforts had been “substantially cut,” that the National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health (#NIOSH ) is ‘essentially gone,’ and that staff members who worked on cancer clustershad been fired.”
“The April 2 letter also listed asthma, tobacco use, violence prevention, lead poisoning, reproductive health, global health threats, birth defects, and #disability and injury prevention as CDC programs affected by the firings.”
https://jamanetwork.com/journals/jama/fullarticle/2833210
Millions of Americans could lose free access to cancer screenings, blood pressure tests, and HIV prevention medication in 2026 due to a Supreme Court case rooted in #HIV stigma.
The court hears arguments next week.
{HIV} Key HIV Care Teams Let Go, Putting Mothers and Children at Risk https://www.google.com/url?rct=j&sa=t&url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.infectiousdiseaseadvisor.com%2Fnews%2Fkey-hiv-care-teams-let-go-putting-mothers-and-children-at-risk%2F&ct=ga&cd=CAIyGTY4MDYxNGRhNGExYjBlYWE6Y2E6ZW46Q0E&usg=AOvVaw1iHljjw_GrW2VmB_xzE22a&utm_source=dlvr.it&utm_medium=mastodon #HIV
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“we found a unique chronic illness stigma—where people did not want to reveal that they had #LongCovid because they feared of being perceived to have #HIV. They reported feeling dismissed or disbelieved by family, friends,and clinicians and turned to online social support groups“
#LongCovid #PASC
@longcovid @covid19 @novid@chirp.social @novid@a.gup.pe
