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NIH funding cuts to implementation science slowing progress on HIV

WashU Public Health •
Cuts to implementation science research funding and to HIV control programs are slowing the global effort to end the HIV epidemic, says WashU's Elvin Geng, a professor of infectious diseases at WashU Medicine and a secondary faculty member at WashU School of Public Health. (Getty Images)
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Early this year, not long after President Donald Trump took office, his administration started terminating grants awarded by the National Institutes of Health (NIH), disrupting studies and unmooring biomedical and public health research communities.