Ending AIDS for good

Published April 5, 2019 12:00am ET



It is customary for Congress to shrug off the president’s budget proposal, but there is one ask from President Trump that has drawn bipartisan praise: The request for $291 million toward ending HIV transmission in a decade.

The initiative focuses on working with community organizations to boost the number of people taking medication to treat and prevent HIV. At this time, progress in the U.S. has stalled, and 40,000 people are still infected by HIV every year.

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