(CNN) Six members of the Presidential Advisory Council on HIV/AIDS resigned last week, owing to “a president who simply does not care,” one member wrote in a Newsweek op-ed on Friday headlined “Trump doesn’t care about HIV. We’re outta here.”
“We cannot ignore the many signs that the Trump Administration does not take the on-going epidemic, or the needs of people living with HIV, seriously,” wrote Scott Schoettes, the HIV project director for Lambda Legal, a civil rights organization focused on the LGBT community and people living with HIV. Schoettes was appointed to the advisory council during the Obama administration.
Schoettes said that advisers on the council, known as PACHA, had suspected the president’s “lack of understanding or concern” for HIV/AIDS issues during the presidential race, but decided to stick around in hope of making change from within the administration.
On Inauguration Day, however, they noticed that the Office of National AIDS Policy website had been taken down…
Source: ‘Trump doesn’t care about HIV,’ say advisers who resigned – CNN.com
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