VIDEO: NIH’s HIV Chief on Ending the AIDS Epidemic

Policies that have made President Donald Trump unpopular with groups disproportionately affected by HIV won’t hamper plans to end the epidemic within the next decade, NIH’s HIV/AIDS chief said in an interview with Bloomberg Law.

“We have a track record that is very, very strong in complete lack of stigmatization, of working with people of any stripe,” Anthony S. Fauci said. The “we” referred to agencies within the Department of Health and Human Services that are carrying out a goal Trump announced in his Feb. 5 State of the Union address to eliminate the AIDS epidemic in the U.S.