U.S. President Donald Trump has unveiled a bold plan to stop spread of HIV within a decade in the U.S. in spite challenges posed by his lack of action to improve healthcare system.
In the annual State of the Union address delivered, Trump urged his audience in Congress to work on to “eliminate the HIV epidemic” in the country “within 10 years.”
This is the second time that Trump used his annual speech in the Congress to make big promises in beating back health scourges.
In 2018, Trump set a red flag to tackle opioid crisis but the money for a wide expansion of addiction treatment is still lacking as he prioritised to cut back the country’s healthcare services.
“In the U.S., more than one million people aged 13 and older are living with HIV infection, with an estimated 15 per cent unaware of their status.
“And approximately 56,000 new infections occur each year, ‘’ according to National Institutes of Health (NIH).
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