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March 11, 2025
‘Act Up. Fight Back.’ Hundreds of Scientists and Clinicians Protest Funding Cuts
By Marie Rosenthal, MS
Hundreds of researchers, clinicians and scientists joined HIV activists in San Francisco during CROI 2025 to protest President Donald Trump’s cuts to research funding, including defunding PEPFAR (the U.S. President’s Emergency Plan for AIDS Relief).
This has been a running theme throughout CROI as speakers raise concerns about decreased funding for HIV and other research, as well as the loss of government scientific researchers to layoffs and firings. The Trump administration and Elon Musk, the head of the Department of Government Efficiency, stopped funding all foreign assistance, including projects coming from the U.S. Agency for International Development (USAID) and PEPFAR.
The rationale for the executive order that put a 90-day pause on PEPFAR and other foreign aid appears to be based on economics and ideological grounds. According to a media note issued by the State Department, the executive order is aimed at “rooting out waste” and “blocking woke programs.” The note added that “every dollar we spend, every program we fund, and every policy we pursue must make America safer, stronger, and more prosperous.”
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