Stopping HIV Would Require an Entirely Different Trump
The president said he wants to eradicate the virus. That would mean a radical reversal of his policy and rhetoric.
by James Hamblin
Feb 06, 2019
4 minutes
The grand gesture of commitment to an implausible health goal is a State of the Union tradition. Richard Nixon once declared a mission to “conquer this dread disease,” referring to all cancers. Barack Obama promised to “map the human brain,” an ambition that scientists could explain only by using further metaphors. (Obama later also announced a plan to cure cancers.)
On Tuesday night, Donald Trump championed ending AIDS in the United States. “My budget will ask Democrats and Republicans to make the needed commitment to eliminate the HIV epidemic in the United States within 10 years,” the president
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