The Future Of US Funding For HIV Treatment And Prevention
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🗓️ 17 July 2025
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Summary
Senate Republicans have decided that PEPFAR is safe from cuts for now, but those fighting the global epidemic are worried.
We talk about what these funding cuts would mean for those actually doing the research, and more importantly, for those living with HIV.
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| 0:00.0 | On this week's Wild Card podcast, comedian Mark Maron reflects on being content-ish. |
| 0:06.9 | I can honestly say there's never been a better time in my life. |
| 0:11.4 | And I'm not even sure this one is that great. |
| 0:16.6 | I'm Rachel Martin. |
| 0:18.0 | Mark Maron's on Wild Card, the show where cards control the conversation. |
| 0:31.0 | In recent years, we have made remarkable progress in the fight against HIV and AIDS. |
| 0:40.3 | Scientific breakthroughs have brought a once distant dream within reach. |
| 0:48.3 | My budget will ask Democrats and Republicans to make the needed commitment to eliminate the HIV epidemic in the United States within 10 years. |
| 1:03.4 | We have made incredible strides, incredible. |
| 1:07.2 | That was a goal stated by President Donald Trump in his 2019 state of the union address. |
| 1:12.8 | But last month, Trump asked Congress to pull back hundreds of millions of dollars |
| 1:17.2 | currently budgeted for the president's emergency plan for AIDS relief for PEPFAR, |
| 1:21.9 | as part of the recisions bill the Senate passed. |
| 1:24.8 | Senate Republicans made it clear in recent weeks they didn't want |
| 1:27.7 | Pepfar on the chopping block, and they got their way. After a meeting with the White |
| 1:31.6 | House on Tuesday and a late-night vote, the cuts to Pepfar are out of the recisions package. |
| 1:37.5 | But it's not the first time that funding for HIV research, treatment, and prevention |
| 1:41.7 | programs and studies has come under threat in the first year |
| 1:44.9 | of the second Trump administration. And it has those working to understand and fight the epidemic, |
| 1:49.7 | both at home and abroad, worried. I'm Jen White. You're listening to the 1A podcast. We break down |
| 1:55.7 | the future of U.S. funding for HIV right after this. Stay with us. |
| 2:04.1 | Most people have some albums, some movies, some book from when they were young that helped shape how they came to see the world. |
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