Trump and RFK Jr. Move to Eliminate Entire Federal Office for Infectious Disease and HIV/AIDS

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🔴 UPDATE: March 29, 2025
Trump Administration to Fire Entire HIV/AIDS and Infectious Disease Office—Public Health Experts Sound Alarm

The Trump administration’s war on public health just escalated again. Health and Human Services Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. is preparing to eliminate the entire Office of Infectious Disease and HIV/AIDS Policy (OIDP)—gutting one of the nation’s most vital public health bodies in the middle of multiple ongoing global health threats.

This isn’t just negligence. It’s sabotage.

Key Developments:

• Sources confirm that the administration plans to fire every staff member at OIDP, the federal office tasked with coordinating national responses to HIV/AIDS, vaccines, hepatitis, STIs, and pandemic threats. (Forbes)

• The HIV+Hepatitis Policy Institute blasted the move, calling it “an insult to the millions living with HIV, hepatitis, and other infectious diseases.” (HIV+Hepatitis Policy Institute)

• CBS News reports that the layoff will gut offices tied to vaccine promotion and infectious disease prevention, echoing RFK Jr.'s long history of spreading anti-vaccine misinformation. (CBS News)

• The office also oversees the National HIV/AIDS Strategy, which is now left in limbo, with advocates warning that the administration has no plan to replace its essential work.

The Real Story: Who Wins and Who Pays the Price?

The people who benefit from this are the same ones who win when chaos reigns: anti-science ideologues, anti-vaxx grifters, and political operatives hellbent on dismantling federal protections.

And who pays the price?
The immunocompromised. The elderly. HIV-positive Americans. Black and Brown communities. Low-income patients.

This isn’t just an office being shut down. It’s the intentional destruction of the federal response to infectious disease, and it will cost lives. That’s the plan.

And behind it all? The right-wing deep state. The same machine that installed RFK Jr. to begin with.

🔍 Why This Matters:

The Office of Infectious Disease and HIV/AIDS Policy wasn’t some bloated bureaucracy. It was the nerve center for our national response to HIV, STIs, viral hepatitis, and pandemic threats.

Destroying it means America is flying blind into the next outbreak.
And Trump and RFK Jr. are just fine with that—because their goal isn’t public health. It’s political control.

🚨 The Bottom Line:

This is what a health coup looks like.
They’re not streamlining. They’re not saving money.
They are dismantling the last barriers protecting Americans from deadly disease—because an informed, healthy public gets in the way of their agenda.

📌 Sources:

• HIV+Hepatitis Policy Institute: Statement on elimination of HHS Office of Infectious Diseases & HIV Policy

• CBS News: RFK Jr. to gut vaccine promotion and HIV prevention office, sources say

• Forbes: RFK Jr. Expected To Lay Off Entire Office Of Infectious Disease And HIV/AIDS Policy

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