🩺 The US critically left a mission it had designated for itself as a national priority: to end the AIDS epidemic.

And in so doing, it has also abandoned the scientific community that has worked relentlessly to make an HIV vaccine a reality.

🗣️«The Trump administration says that too much foreign aid is wasted by corrupt governments and bloated programs. The president and his allies have repeatedly said that the United States has shouldered an unfair share of responsibility for global health support and that other countries must do more.»