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Trump administration weighs major cuts to HIV prevention funding, WSJ reports

Trump administration weighs major cuts to HIV prevention funding, WSJ reports

The Health and Human Services Department is weighing plans to “drastically” cut the federal government’s funding for domestic HIV prevention, people familiar with the matter told The Wall Street Journal’s Liz Essley Whyte, Dominique Mosbergen and Jonathan Rockoff. Plans could be announced as soon as within a day, though they haven’t been finalized and could be pulled back or adjusted, the report noted. ViiV Healthcare, the global specialist HIV company majority owned by GSK (GSK), with Pfizer (PFE) and Shionogi (SGIOY) as shareholders, as well as Gilead Sciences (GILD) are makers of HIV prevention treatments.

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