Comment on USAID funding freeze disrupts global tuberculosis control effortsparentComments−perihelions1yReasonable assumptions would not assume you to assuming the US' top medical bureaucrat being a conspiracy theorist who denies the existence of HIV (and asserts AIDS is environmental and that anti-retroviral drugs are dangerous toxins).https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robert_F._Kennedy_Jr.#HIV/AIDS... ("Robert F. Kennedy Jr.#HIV/AIDS denialism")https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Real_Anthony_Faucihttps://www.motherjones.com/politics/2024/11/rfk-aids-hiv-hh...https://www.nytimes.com/2025/02/13/opinion/kennedys-views-on...−mplanchard1yYes, given the new health secretary, it's likely to be much more than 100x worse, if the money is redirected to any sort of positive end at all.
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Reasonable assumptions would not assume you to assuming the US' top medical bureaucrat being a conspiracy theorist who denies the existence of HIV (and asserts AIDS is environmental and that anti-retroviral drugs are dangerous toxins).
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robert_F._Kennedy_Jr.#HIV/AIDS... ("Robert F. Kennedy Jr.#HIV/AIDS denialism")
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Real_Anthony_Fauci
https://www.motherjones.com/politics/2024/11/rfk-aids-hiv-hh...
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/02/13/opinion/kennedys-views-on...
Yes, given the new health secretary, it's likely to be much more than 100x worse, if the money is redirected to any sort of positive end at all.