Summary

Health Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. plans to eliminate the Office of Infectious Disease and HIV/AIDS Policy (OIDP) and dissolve the Office of Minority Health as part of a broader HHS restructuring that will cut 20,000 positions.

OIDP, key to vaccine promotion and HIV prevention, oversees programs like the national vaccine strategy and “Ending the HIV Epidemic.”

Its functions may be absorbed into a new agency, the Administration for a Healthy America (AHA).

The move raises concerns about public health impacts, especially amid declining vaccination rates.

  • WildPalmTree@lemmy.world
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    2 days ago

    I know what you mean, but knowing what words mean means something too. The US can’t become a third world country.

    • Phoenixz@lemmy.ca
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      2 days ago

      Can’t? It’s already halfway there.

      Dictatorial regime in charge

      Very low to (soon) hardly any education standards

      Barely any healthcare available for anyone

      Highly corrupt

      Highly corrupt police force that can act with near impunity

      Nearly all news outlets are controlled by government and spew nothing but propaganda 24/7

      Largest part of the population is or is sliding into poverty

      Rampant homelessness

      I can go on for a while…