Science Insider has learned that the Trump Administration ordered scientists employed by the US National Institutes of Health to stop “acquiring new human fetal tissue for experiments” related to HIV cure research.
This is not the first time that the evangelical savior of the religious right has intentionally harmed people suffering from this virus.
The Ryan White HIV/AIDS Program, which provides resources for the care and medical treatment of HIV patients, had some funding redirected. Although the Ryan White HIV/AIDS Program did not have its FY 2018 budget cut, 266 million of HHS funding was redirected to the Mexican border to cage the children of climate change refugees from Central America effectively slashing critical funding.
In 2017, he fired the entire HV/AIDS council after six members resigned in protest, and he refused to explain why.
Despite rumors that Trump paid for the health care of the deceased teenager that the program is named for, mysteriously appeared during the run-up to the 2016 election. The mother of Ryan White stated that Trump never paid a dime for her son’s care. White was a hemophiliac who needed frequent blood treatments and was infected with the virus by tainted donated blood when he was only thirteen years old in 1984. He transitioned in April of 1990. As you recall, Trump attached himself to pop star Michael Jackson when the singer paid his respects to the dying boy.
The Ryan White program was not alone in having its funding slashed. The “announcement indicates that millions will be stripped from HIV and other STI programs, cancer prevention programs, and maternal and child health programs”.
Meredith Wadman of Science Insider writes on the damage done to medical research from the evil know-nothings inside the Trump regime effort to stifle research for a cure for AIDS, along with every other life-threatening illness that patients could benefit from fetal tissue research.
[...] The suspension, imposed this past September without a public announcement, came as the government launched a review of all fetal tissue research funded by the federal government. The pause affects two laboratories run by the Bethesda, Maryland–based agency, NIH officials say. In one case, it disrupted a study probing how the virus that causes AIDS initially colonizes human tissues.
“We were all poised to go and then the bombshell was dropped,” says HIV researcher Warner Greene, director of the Gladstone Center for HIV Cure Research in San Francisco, California, who was collaborating with an NIH laboratory that received the order. “The decision completely knocked our collaboration off the rails. We were devastated.”
The order expands the scope of the Trump administration’s interventions into federally funded research that uses human fetal tissue from elective abortions, which is legal but fiercely opposed by antiabortion groups. In September, it canceled a Food and Drug Administration (FDA) contract for acquiring human fetal tissue for testing candidate drugs. This week, the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS), which oversees NIH, told researchers at the University of California (UC), San Francisco, that it would be extending a contract for work involving human fetal tissue for just 90 days instead of the usual 1 year, prompting media reports that the department was preparing to cancel the contract. HHS denied those reports, saying it has made no decisions regarding federal funding for human fetal tissue research pending the outcome of the ongoing review of all such work.
Like Individual One, Pence’s response to the AIDS pandemic has been prayer, albeit with much more piety. The Human Rights Campaign warned us about this science-denying religious nut’s HIV policy blunders. Spoiler alert, nothing but hate and ignorance.
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