President Donald Trump’s Fiscal Year 2025-2026 budget would eliminate HIV prevention and surveillance at the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, Housing Opportunities for Persons with AIDS, and other programs. The total cut would be over $1.5 billion.

The budget, however, largely maintains funding for domestic HIV care, treatment, and PrEP programs. The news comes after a period of uncertainty of where cuts in funds to fight the epidemic would come from and how much they’d be.  

“We urgently call on Congress to reject these cuts in order to ensure that states and community-based organizations have the resources to prevent HIV, which is still a serious infectious disease and results in about 32,000 new cases each year,” stated Carl Schmid, a gay man who is the executive director o

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