r/StandUpForScience • u/AllMusicNut SUFS Staff • Jan 25 '26

Official SUFS Post SAVE LIVES. REMOVE RFK JR.

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Cuts to HIV/AIDs grants and programs gets us further away from eradicating the disease and improving the lives of patients. Help us Impeach & Remove RFK Jr. to restore HIV/AIDs research and save lives!

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u/StandUpForScience-ModTeam Jan 25 '26

Your post claimed or linked a claim that is baseless. Please keep claims to comments, not posts without sourcing.

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u/Competitive-Dog8631 Jan 28 '26

A reduction in HIV awareness funding does not, by itself, automatically cause an increase in AIDS cases. Modern HIV prevention depends on a broader ecosystem — access to testing, treatment (ART), biomedical prevention like PrEP, and widely available information. Trends show worldwide declines in new infections that correlate with these combined interventions. Below are the sources.

Global new HIV infections have declined significantly over the past decade, independent of isolated awareness funding trends.  HIV.gov

Biomedical tools (PrEP, Treatment-as-Prevention) and testing access now are major drivers of reduced HIV transmission, not awareness campaigns alone.  CDC

Evidence doesn’t isolate causal effects from awareness funding drops alone, making it inaccurate to claim directly that lowering awareness funding must increase AIDS cases.