After the dizziness and the Trump administration’s chaos, the job control and the preventive worker center says they are trapped in budget, political and professional Limbo.
Their work includes priority of major agencies such as HIV tests and monitoring, and work in the nation’s best sexually transmitted infection laboratory. And as the employee returned or delayed, many projects were canceled or stopped as they disappeared or delayed.
HIV scientists said, “I was looking at the empty screen for a while.” “There were some projects before this project. I’m trying to start again.”
“We don’t know what’s going on and what to do.”
These employees expressed deep concerns about the future of the institution and the work of HIV and other threats. Unprecedented downsizing can increase life losses and medical expenses, they say. Their uncertain employment was sank. Many people are worried about the future of public health.
On August 8, Georgia’s gunmen confirmed that Patrick Joseph White was fired from Atlanta’s CDC buildings. Dekalb County Police David Rose died. According to news reports, the dead white may have been motivated by his view of the vaccine.
This attack added another level of anxiety to the agency workers.
Laboratory scientists said on August 10 that “we feel threats inside,” “The trauma runs too differently for all of us, and is it the last straw for some of us?
HealthBeat interviewed 11 CDC staff, and the agency was able to see the agency’s conditions rarely. Everyone except one was fired and returned the job. Most of them worked in HIV -related projects for at least a few years. Everyone cited fear of retaliation and talked about anonymous conditions.
They are afraid of their employment, saying, “It is on the basis of shaking.”
HIV epidemic specialist said, “We are confused and we are confused and we have lost our basis for preventing HIV.” “I feel like a phone on the chess.”
HHS spokesman Emily Hilliard responded to the question with this statement.
“Under the leadership of Kennedy, the country’s important public health functions are maintained and effective. The Trump administration is trying to protect the essential service regardless of whether it supports coal miners and firefighters through NIOSH, protects public health through prevention, or studies and tracks the most widespread communication diseases. It remains as a task. ”
The workers received positive news on July 31 when the Senate voted to maintain more than $ 9 billion near the current level. HIV researcher said, “It is very encouraging, but this is only one step of the expenditure process.
Nevertheless, the CDC’s HIV program is facing uncertainty at the Trump administration’s budget request. John Brooks, who retired as the chief medical officer of the HIV prevention department of CDC last year, expressed concern about ending the HIV epidemic initiative. Brooks said, “I have brought a new life to prevent HIV prevention.”
Brooks said that the success of the HIV epidemic initiative is at jeopardy by the administrative plan to reduce HIV prevention efforts. This includes the potential removal of the CDC department of HIV prevention, which provides funds for testing and prevention to main health departments and other groups, perform HIV monitoring and monitoring, study HIV prevention and treatment, and support education and education to medical professionals.
“There is no way to achieve EHE’s goals without maintaining the national prevention infrastructure,” Brooks said. “There are all reasons you have to worry about actually increasing the new HIV infection.”
Robert F. Kennedy Jr. Depending on the minister, the Ministry of Health and Welfare has carried out a wide range of dismissal from CDC and other health institutions since early April. A lawsuit against these mass dismissal is in progress in the federal court.
The administration’s budget blueprint will move the CDC HIV work to the administration of HEALTHY AMERICA, a new HHS department advocated by Kennedy, a help division.
HIV prevention doctors found that HIV’s treatment, which tracked quality and gaps as a result of HIV treatment, was set up as casualties in accordance with the Trump restructuring plan, HIV prevention.
HHS officials did not communicate with the class and files for restructuring, some CDC workers said.
The HIV scientist said, “It was a cricket.”
The CDC budget proposed by the White House in the next fiscal year includes more than 50%, according to administrative documents and public health advocacy organizations, ranging from $ 9.2 billion in fiscal year 2025 fiscal years, and some agency functions were transferred to the proposed AHA. The Senate Committee did not raise AHA funds by injecting billions of dollars into the agency budget for overwhelming voting.
Senator Jon Ossoff, the cause of the Georgia Democratic Party, thanked the Committee for refusing to tolerate most CDCs.
OSSOFF said, “The White House’s budget request included a 56% reduction in the world’s epidemiological institutions around the world.
When the White House prevails and the preventive program is removed, Emily Schreiber, the chief of the national and territorial AIDS directors, said, “We will know that there is no funds for HIV prevention in most states.” “This means that most weeks cannot be recommended for HIV tests, requests and/or prevention services.” It can prevent HIV infection.
“This means that nations can’t help people approach the drug, which means that we will increase new cases and HIV proliferation across the United States.”
“We will see the dismissal on the CDC. I think it can be seen in the state health department and community -based organization,” she added.
According to a statement that sent an email to Healthbeat, the Los Angeles County Public Health Department recently dismissed or dismissed dozens of HIV workers due to funding.
“I am concerned that all HIV prevention work will be permanently disappearing.” I think the administration wants the federal government to prevent HIV prevention. “
Georgia has led the US to the new HIV infection rate, according to the latest data. AIDSVU. CDC workers also said they are also concerned that the vulnerable color community and the LGBTQ+ community will deeply harm the financing cuts.
The HIV doctor will disappear the information provided by the medical monitoring project in Georgia and other states, HIV doctors say. He said that people with disadvantages of prevention and treatment will be reduced to disadvantaged people, including drug abuse, mental illness, transgender and poverty.
The doctor said, “There is a lot of anger and sorrow among people about the end of the project.” “Many passion is gone.”
Patrick SULLIVAN is an effective assumption test program for planning to close the HIV this fall. Together Takemehome Emory University ‘S Rollins School of Public Health’s Project Senior Scientists and Professors. The CDC said that the employee no longer supervised it by notice to cancel the funds for the project. Headquartered in emory, this project has provided more than 900,000 free housing test kits nationwide through integration with easy -to -use websites and dating apps.
Healthbeat’s interviewed employees said that more than 100 HIV employees are one of more than 450 CDC employees. Some cited Media reportSupport of parliament, advocacy for reinstatement of patient groups and pharmaceutical companies. The epidemic scholar said, “Congress members will be bats for HIV.
Some are closely at the lawsuit filed by 20 Democratic lawyers and want to stop the agency restructuring plan Kennedy. It was announced in March. We are also paying attention to the lawsuit filed in California, which challenges dismissal.
Some people who recovered their jobs retired or moved to others. “I don’t believe that some people will leave because we don’t believe that we will remain,” said HIV Prevention Research Institute.
In the CDC’s sexually transmitted infection laboratory in Atlanta, laboratory scientists said the work was slowed down due to new spending restrictions on insufficient employees and supplies.
The recovery laboratory workers are focusing on areas with high priority such as syphilis and gonorrhea, while other diseases have been thrown away, scientists said.
The scientist said, “We all provide public health because we know what mission is.” We just want to finish our work and protect the US public. “
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