Six members of the Presidential Advisory Council on HIV/AIDS (PACHA) resigned in protest of the Trump administration, which they allege “has no strategy to address the on-going HIV/AIDS epidemic.”
Scott Schoettes, Counsel and HIV Project Director at Lambda Legal, explained in a Newsweek op-ed Friday that he and five colleagues decided to leave their posts on the council for a number of reasons.
Schoettes, who is HIV positive, added that the White House is also pushing legislation that would harm people with HIV and “reverse gains made in the fight against the disease.”
“The decision to resign from government service is not one that any of us take lightly,” Schoettes wrote on behalf of his colleagues. “However, we cannot ignore the many signs that the Trump administration does not take the on-going epidemic or the needs of people living with HIV seriously.”
The White House and the Department of Health and Human Services did not immediately respond to multiple requests for comment. Read more at NBC News.
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Good bye. Good riddance. Don’t let the door hit you in the back of the head on your way out.
What are signs from Obama that he did take it seriously??? No resignation then? Are these accusations of “not taking seriously” , confirmed by any outsiders?? Appears to be a political pby a government group.loy
correction: Appears to be a ploy by a government group..
And what’s the rationale for all the taxpayers to pay for these people who can’t control themselves? Is this the ‘pride’ that they talk about so much?
See folks. Republican politics are Wimpy.
This is a total wimp out wimp worry and wimp pride.
HIV Aids is a crucial developmental experience to ration good strength in our modern community. Trump has a designed world value that even destroys the inward works of any office let alone those that watch over the many who are in need of yet a human future if even they can find help.
Wimp.
They sell affordable Webster dictionaries, you know.
Big idea. A liberal with a dictionary. The conservatives will never know what to do ever. Too many big words for the voter without human wit.
Thanks!
have you ever written a coherent sentence?
Puny thoughts “Doctor’. There might be more levity if you actually could read high school grade intelligent discussion. I am at the college level. Sorry, it will be very hopeless for you today.