A crime against humanity? You be the judge.

[berg80]

Promise of Victory Over H.I.V. Fades as U.S. Withdraws Support

This was supposed to be a breakthrough year in the 44-year-long struggle against H.I.V.

Decades of research and investment produced new approaches to vaccines that were going into their first significant clinical trials.

The hunt for a cure was homing in on key mechanisms to block the virus, which can lurk dormant and near-untraceable in the body for years.

Most critically, a breakthrough preventive drug, lenacapavir, a twice-yearly injection that offers total protection from H.I.V., was to be rapidly rolled out across eastern and southern Africa. The main target: young women. About 300,000 of them were newly infected with the virus last year — half of all new infections worldwide.

Every one of these plans has been derailed by the Trump administration’s slashing of foreign assistance.
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/06/25/health/hiv-lenacapavir-vaccine-trump-cuts-africa.html

Like it or not, there is a real human cost to trump ending funding for programs like this. I suppose I would characterize trump supporters as being indifferent. **************** MOD EDIT: OVERLY RACIST COMMENTS ARE NOT WELCOMED AT USMB.

 

[TNHarley]

We need to cut more programs.
We are literally borrowing to give other countries money. Thats absolutely ludicrous!

 

[pknopp]

Need to save the money for bombs.

 

[TNHarley]

Need to save the money for bombs.

Nope. We need to cut that too.

 

[pknopp]

Nope. We need to cut that too.

Obviously we won't

 

[berg80]

We need to cut more programs.
We are literally borrowing to give other countries money. Thats absolutely ludicrous!

I suppose I would characterize trump supporters as being indifferent.

There is more potential than ever before to end the H.I.V. epidemic, scientists and public health experts say. But now, H.I.V. programs across Africa are scrambling to procure drugs that the United States once supplied, replace lost nurses and lab technicians, and restart shuttered programs to prevent new infections.

The United States has historically contributed about three-quarters of the global spending on H.I.V., about $6 billion annually in recent years. This is a legacy of a commitment made by President George W. Bush more than two decades ago. Mr. Bush made ending the AIDS pandemic a U.S. priority, saying this was a wealthy nation’s humanitarian obligation, and that it would also benefit American health and security, to bring the deadly virus in check.

So for $4.5B there's a possibility to "end the H.I.V. epidemic, scientists and public health experts say."

But trump has different priorities.

$25 million to $45 million​

The massive military parade and festivities are expected to cost between $25 million and $45 million, according to Army spokesperson Heather J. Hagan. Part of the hefty bill could include millions just to repair D.C. streets, since tanks and other heavy armored vehicles tend to damage roads.

https://www.npr.org/2025/06/12/g-s1-70085/trump-birthday-dc-military-parade-history

 

[TNHarley]

I suppose I would characterize trump supporters as being indifferent. After all, in the minds of some, brown and black people just aren't as worthy of living as white folks.

There is more potential than ever before to end the H.I.V. epidemic, scientists and public health experts say. But now, H.I.V. programs across Africa are scrambling to procure drugs that the United States once supplied, replace lost nurses and lab technicians, and restart shuttered programs to prevent new infections.

The United States has historically contributed about three-quarters of the global spending on H.I.V., about $6 billion annually in recent years. This is a legacy of a commitment made by President George W. Bush more than two decades ago. Mr. Bush made ending the AIDS pandemic a U.S. priority, saying this was a wealthy nation’s humanitarian obligation, and that it would also benefit American health and security, to bring the deadly virus in check.

So for $4.5B there's a possibility to "end the H.I.V. epidemic, scientists and public health experts say."

But trump has different priorities.

$25 million to $45 million​

The massive military parade and festivities are expected to cost between $25 million and $45 million, according to Army spokesperson Heather J. Hagan. Part of the hefty bill could include millions just to repair D.C. streets, since tanks and other heavy armored vehicles tend to damage roads.

https://www.npr.org/2025/06/12/g-s1-70085/trump-birthday-dc-military-parade-history

We just need to borrow a few billion more!

 

[Nostra]

Promise of Victory Over H.I.V. Fades as U.S. Withdraws Support

This was supposed to be a breakthrough year in the 44-year-long struggle against H.I.V.

Decades of research and investment produced new approaches to vaccines that were going into their first significant clinical trials.

The hunt for a cure was homing in on key mechanisms to block the virus, which can lurk dormant and near-untraceable in the body for years.

Most critically, a breakthrough preventive drug, lenacapavir, a twice-yearly injection that offers total protection from H.I.V., was to be rapidly rolled out across eastern and southern Africa. The main target: young women. About 300,000 of them were newly infected with the virus last year — half of all new infections worldwide.

Every one of these plans has been derailed by the Trump administration’s slashing of foreign assistance.
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/06/25/health/hiv-lenacapavir-vaccine-trump-cuts-africa.html

Like it or not, there is a real human cost to trump ending funding for programs like this. I suppose I would characterize trump supporters as being indifferent.

wow. They are going to eliminate a promising drug that prevents aids cuz we aren't sending as much to Africa?

 

[g5000]

Promise of Victory Over H.I.V. Fades as U.S. Withdraws Support

This was supposed to be a breakthrough year in the 44-year-long struggle against H.I.V.

Decades of research and investment produced new approaches to vaccines that were going into their first significant clinical trials.

The hunt for a cure was homing in on key mechanisms to block the virus, which can lurk dormant and near-untraceable in the body for years.

Most critically, a breakthrough preventive drug, lenacapavir, a twice-yearly injection that offers total protection from H.I.V., was to be rapidly rolled out across eastern and southern Africa. The main target: young women. About 300,000 of them were newly infected with the virus last year — half of all new infections worldwide.

Every one of these plans has been derailed by the Trump administration’s slashing of foreign assistance.
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/06/25/health/hiv-lenacapavir-vaccine-trump-cuts-africa.html

Like it or not, there is a real human cost to trump ending funding for programs like this. I suppose I would characterize trump supporters as being indifferent.

Whether deliberate or not, the Trump Administration is working to wipe out as many non-whites around the world as possible.

What the dumbass Trump doesn't realize is this is a surrender to China and Russia as they rush into the vacuum of soft power we are leaving wide open for them.

What Trump also doesn't realize is those chickens will one day come home to roost. Diseases, wars, no end of problems which will flourish without our efforts to prevent them.

The saddest part of all is Little Marco knows better and just rogers up on the idiocy. His soul must be dying.

His face looks like it is.

 

[Oddball]

We just need to borrow a few billion more!

Total success is just a few more moths away...It's over there with the Iranian nukes!

 

[Toddsterpatriot]

I suppose I would characterize trump supporters as being indifferent.

There is more potential than ever before to end the H.I.V. epidemic, scientists and public health experts say. But now, H.I.V. programs across Africa are scrambling to procure drugs that the United States once supplied, replace lost nurses and lab technicians, and restart shuttered programs to prevent new infections.

The United States has historically contributed about three-quarters of the global spending on H.I.V., about $6 billion annually in recent years. This is a legacy of a commitment made by President George W. Bush more than two decades ago. Mr. Bush made ending the AIDS pandemic a U.S. priority, saying this was a wealthy nation’s humanitarian obligation, and that it would also benefit American health and security, to bring the deadly virus in check.

So for $4.5B there's a possibility to "end the H.I.V. epidemic, scientists and public health experts say."

But trump has different priorities.

$25 million to $45 million​

The massive military parade and festivities are expected to cost between $25 million and $45 million, according to Army spokesperson Heather J. Hagan. Part of the hefty bill could include millions just to repair D.C. streets, since tanks and other heavy armored vehicles tend to damage roads.

https://www.npr.org/2025/06/12/g-s1-70085/trump-birthday-dc-military-parade-history

So for $4.5B there's a possibility to "end the H.I.V. epidemic, scientists and public health experts say."

Is that all?

Soros and Gates and Buffett can cover that easily.

The Gates Foundation has about $80 billion.

Send a letter to Bill.

 

[Nostra]

So for $4.5B there's a possibility to "end the H.I.V. epidemic, scientists and public health experts say."

Is that all?

Soros and Gates and Buffett can cover that easily.

The Gates Foundation has about $80 billion.

Send a letter to Bill.

Or maybe all the other countries can kick in a few bucks.

Why does the rest of the world hate the gays?

 

[Seymour Flops]

Most critically, a breakthrough preventive drug, lenacapavir, a twice-yearly injection that offers total protection from H.I.V., was to be rapidly rolled out across eastern and southern Africa. The main target: young women. About 300,000 of them were newly infected with the virus last year — half of all new infections worldwide.

Are they going to give it to little girls aged seven and below? Those are the targets of African men with AIDS looking to "cure" themselves.

The belief that HIV/AIDS can be cured as a result of having sex with a virgin has been identified as a possible factor in the rape of babies and children in South Africa.

On the virgin cleansing myth: gendered bodies, AIDS and ethnomedicine - PubMed

The belief that HIV/AIDS can be cured as a result of having sex with a virgin has been identified as a possible factor in the rape of babies and children in South Africa. While the prevalence of this myth has been a matter of concern in local communities for some time, there have been recent...

pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov

Why would drug companies insist on testing their experimental medicines in South Africa and other primitive countries? Is it because of the lax regulation of drug trials on human subjects, or because officials are so easily bribed to ignore what little regulations their are?

Let an American university repurpose some of the tax dollars they have dedicated to comically useless studies and study this on American subjects with American regulations.

 

[berg80]

We just need to borrow a few billion more!

Or cut a few billion from subsidies to oil companies in order to realize the "potential than ever before to end the H.I.V. epidemic, scientists and public health experts say."

 

[BluesLegend]

Dems are always generous with OTHER PEOPLE's money.

 

[22lcidw]

Or cut a few billion from subsidies to oil companies in order to realize the "potential than ever before to end the H.I.V. epidemic, scientists and public health experts say."

It is very evident that sexual behavior is most of this problem.

 

[berg80]

Why would drug companies insist on testing their experimental medicines in South Africa and other primitive countries?

I suppose there are limitless ways to deflect from what the Criminal-in-Chief is doing.

Researchers and activists in the trenches of the long fight against H.I.V. got a rare piece of exciting news this week: Results from a large clinical trial in Africa showed that a twice-yearly injection of a new antiviral drug gave young women total protection from the virus.

“I got cold shivers,” said Dr. Linda-Gail Bekker, an investigator in the trial of the drug, lenacapavir, describing the startling sight of a line of zeros in the data column for new infections. “After all our years of sadness, particularly over vaccines, this truly is surreal.”

Yvette Raphael, the leader of a group called Advocacy for Prevention of H.I.V. and AIDS in South Africa, said it was “the best news ever.”

The randomized controlled trial, called Purpose 1, was conducted in Uganda and South Africa. It tested whether the every-six-months injection of lenacapavir, made by Gilead Sciences, would provide better protection against H.I.V. infection than two other drugs in wide use in high-income countries, both daily pills.

https://www.nytimes.com/2024/06/21/health/lenacapavir-hiv-prevention-africa.html

 

[berg80]

Why would drug companies insist on testing their experimental medicines in South Africa and other primitive countries?

Having already approved it as a treatment to reduce viral load in patients with the disease, the US Food and Drug Administration has now confirmed lenacapavir as a pre-exposure prophylaxis (PrEP) drug. PrEP drugs are taken before having unprotected sex or injecting drugs to protect against HIV.

'Miracle' HIV drug lenacapavir approved amid US budget cuts

The US has approved lenacapavir for HIV prevention. However, experts worry that cuts to the health budget will "squander" the drug's chance of reducing infections.

www.dw.com

GFY.

 

[Seymour Flops]

Having already approved it as a treatment to reduce viral load in patients with the disease, the US Food and Drug Administration has now confirmed lenacapavir as a pre-exposure prophylaxis (PrEP) drug. PrEP drugs are taken before having unprotected sex or injecting drugs to protect against HIV.

'Miracle' HIV drug lenacapavir approved amid US budget cuts

The US has approved lenacapavir for HIV prevention. However, experts worry that cuts to the health budget will "squander" the drug's chance of reducing infections.

www.dw.com

GFY.

If it is so great, and already approved and confirmed, why not test it on Americans? Or just start handing it out, and don't even call it a test?

This sounds like a miracle drug, so the drug companies don't need anymore taxpayer handouts to sell it, right?

Or is it that you don't care if Africans are killed by an experimental off-label use?

 

[Independent thinker]

Promise of Victory Over H.I.V. Fades as U.S. Withdraws Support

This was supposed to be a breakthrough year in the 44-year-long struggle against H.I.V.

Decades of research and investment produced new approaches to vaccines that were going into their first significant clinical trials.

The hunt for a cure was homing in on key mechanisms to block the virus, which can lurk dormant and near-untraceable in the body for years.

Most critically, a breakthrough preventive drug, lenacapavir, a twice-yearly injection that offers total protection from H.I.V., was to be rapidly rolled out across eastern and southern Africa. The main target: young women. About 300,000 of them were newly infected with the virus last year — half of all new infections worldwide.

Every one of these plans has been derailed by the Trump administration’s slashing of foreign assistance.
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/06/25/health/hiv-lenacapavir-vaccine-trump-cuts-africa.html

Like it or not, there is a real human cost to trump ending funding for programs like this. I suppose I would characterize trump supporters as being indifferent. **************** MOD EDIT: OVERLY RACIST COMMENTS ARE NOT WELCOMED AT USMB.

The only crime against humanity was your parents deciding to have children.