It's the Brian Larry Show on WNYC. Good morning again, everyone. So today, December 1st, is World AIDS Day. And I'm going to read something from the Centers for Disease Control website about World

Age Day now, and I better read it fast before the Trump administration takes it down.

I'll explain why.

The CDC website says, quote, world AIDS day is an opportunity for every community and individual

to honor the more than 32 million people who have

died worldwide from AIDS-related illnesses. Two World Health Organization public information

officers started World AIDS Day in 1988 as an international day for global health. Since then,

it has been observed each year on December 1st. World AIDS Day is a day

of solidarity for people around the world who are affected by HIV, which of course the virus that

causes AIDS, and for voices to unite by sharing experiences, remembering those lost, and standing together in the fight against

HIV. So that from the CDC.gov slash World AIDS Day page. But like I said, you better read

it quick because the New York Times reports that the State Department has instructed federal

agencies and grantees to avoid

any public messaging about the day, including on social media and speeches or through official

communications. Now, this abrupt silence comes at a moment when the administration has frozen

foreign aid and upended longstanding HIV programs worldwide,

leaving many clinics and partners unsure what support will continue,

and with estimated body counts being really shocking in the numbers that are coming in.

And it's happening just as, and here's the other piece of news, just as a major scientific

breakthrough arrives, a new HIV prevention drug called Lena Kappa Veer, a twice a year

injectable that offered near vaccine level protection in large clinical trials,

including in South Africa.

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