The Trump administration will not renew direct federal funding of community-based organizations that work on HIV prevention, according to multiple groups impacted by the freeze.<\/p>\n
The move is the latest step in the administration\u2019s push to eliminate funding for DEI-focused initiatives that help the LGBTQ community.<\/p>\n
But this one directly contradicts the White House\u2019s push to end the HIV epidemic by 2030.\u00a0<\/p>\n
The Office of Management and Budget late last week told the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention that it will not renew $46 million in funding for the 96 community-based organizations to provide HIV testing, linkage to care, referrals for pre- and post-exposure drug treatment\u00a0and outbreak response.<\/p>\n
Instead, the CDC is shifting resources to state and local health departments.<\/p>\n
Last week, the Trump administration put out a supplemental notice of funding to states encouraging them to give some money to the community-based organizations. But that supplemental funding would only last through May. Applications for the funding are due July 21.<\/p>\n
Spokespersons for the OMB and Department of Health and Human Services did not immediately respond to requests for comment.<\/p>\n
When community-based organizations receive directly contracted federal funding, they can participate in the 340B drug discount program, which requires drugmakers to provide outpatient prescription drug discounts to qualifying health care organizations.\u00a0<\/p>\n
When these grants end, these clinics would have a much more difficult time purchasing those drugs\u00a0because they\u2019re no longer in the 340B program, according to Carl Schmid, executive director at the HIV+Hepatitis Policy Institute.<\/p>\n
If states pick up the tab, that could help the clinics enroll in the 340B\u00a0program\u00a0\u2014 but that\u2019s not a very reliable option, as states are not required to spend that money.<\/p>\n
\u201cSometimes the states are a barrier, and others they\u2019re not,\u201d Schmid said.<\/p>\n
HIV advocacy groups are encouraging Health and Human Services Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. and acting CDC Director Jay Bhattacharya to reverse the decision and immediately fund the program.<\/p>\n
Appropriations<\/p>\n
The White House\u2019s 2027 budget request proposed eliminating $800 million of CDC HIV prevention funding, and proposed $220 million for the President\u2019s Ending the HIV Epidemic Initiative. The House\u2019s fiscal 2027 Labor-HHS-Education bill would match the president\u2019s request.<\/p>\n
HIV prevention organizations and advocacy groups are lobbying the Senate to propose more funding for HIV prevention and include language in their budget report guaranteeing direct funding to community-based organizations to conduct HIV prevention activities.<\/p>\n
\u201cCongress is watching grant funding right now. Especially when they appropriate the funding,\u201d Schmid said.<\/p>\n
Jessie Hellmann contributed to this report.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The Trump administration will not renew direct federal funding of community-based organizations that work on HIV prevention, according…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":774566,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[59],"tags":[251463,82250,150,23715,1340,10473,526,13962,97,32812,252,253,7231,58080,7267,79589,1343,720,3479,3123],"class_list":["post-774565","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-health-care","tag-appropriations","tag-brand-safety","tag-budget","tag-centers-for-disease-control-and-prevention","tag-congress","tag-department-of-health-and-human-services","tag-education","tag-executive-branch","tag-health","tag-health-and-human-services","tag-health-care","tag-healthcare","tag-house","tag-human-services","tag-lobbying","tag-office-of-management-and-budget","tag-policy","tag-senate","tag-trump","tag-white-house"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/774565","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=774565"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/774565\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/774566"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=774565"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=774565"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=774565"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}