The Trump administration’s Department of Health and Human Services terminated around 60 federal grants supporting HIV and HIV prevention-related research over the past five weeks, cutting tens of millions in funding for programs spread across nearly two dozen universities and a handful of other institutions.
Much of the research focused on population groups most impacted by HIV. Roughly half of the programs centered on Black or Latino populations, who have made up the vast majority of recent HIV infections per estimates from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. Others focused on transgender people, a frequent target of this White House. At least one grant focused on preventing HIV in infants and children.
The Trump administration has steadily increased the pace of terminations over the past five weeks, cutting a new batch of grants every few days. Some days saw a single-digit number of cuts, others over a hundred. Most of the cuts were only disclosed in the past few days after the National Institutes of Health updated a running list of canceled grants that notes the dates of their terminations.