The centers of diseases control and prevention centers, whose jobs were restored after the Trump administration disorders erupted that they are still stuck in budget, political and professional birds.
Their work includes the main agency’s priorities such as HIV and monitoring virus testing, as well as working in a sexually transmitted inflammatory laboratory in the country. While the employees returned, many projects were canceled or stopped, as funding disappears or delayed.
“For a while, the work was staring at an empty screen,” said HIV. “I had two projects before that. I was trying to restart them.”
“We do not know what is happening or what we do,” said a researcher in preventing HIV that was separated and then was re -set.
These employees expressed their deep concern about the agency’s future and its work in HIV and other threats. They say that reducing an unprecedented size can lead to loss of lives and high spending on medical care. I put an uncertain employment mode sinking the morale. A lot of concern about the future of public health.
On August 8, an armed man was determined by the Georgia authorities, as Patrick Joseph White fired footage at the buildings of the Disease Control Center in Atlanta. The first respondent was killed at the scene, a police officer of David David Rose. White, who was found dead, was driven by his views on vaccines, according to news reports.
The attack added another level of anxiety to the agency’s workers.
“We feel threatened from the inside, and it is clear that it is from the outside,” said a laboratory scientist on August 10.
Heldbeat conducted an interview with 11 CDC workers, who gave a rare glimpse into the agency’s circumstances. All except one and then their jobs were shown. Most of them have worked on HIV projects for at least several years. Everyone talked about the lack of disclosure of his identity, noting the fear of revenge.
They are afraid of their work, under the terms of HIV, “on a shaken land.”
“I am concerned about the presence of chaos and that we lost the Earth when preventing HIV” from the discounts in collecting data and layoffs in the local public health. “I feel like a chess board.”
Emily Heilard, HHS spokeswoman, has responded to a query with this statement:
“The leadership of Minister Kennedy, the critical public health functions in the country remain healthy and effective. The Trump administration is committed to protecting basic services-whether it supports coal miners and firefighters through NIOSH, or protecting public health by preventing the task, or searching for and tracking the pet. It is still our top priority.”
The workers received some positive news on July 31, when the Senate Committee voted to maintain the funding center for diseases for more than 9 billion dollars, near its current level. “It is very encouraging, but this is only one step in the process of credits,” said HIV researcher.
However, under the Trump Administration Budget application, the Center for Disease Control Center faces uncertainty in HIV. John Brooks, who retired the position of chief medical officials in the HIV prevention department at the Center for Disease Control last year, expressed concern about the end of the HIV initiative. “He has breathed a new life to prevent HIV.”
Broks said that the successes of the HIV initiative are at risk by the administration’s plan to expand the scope of HIV. This includes the potential disposal of the CDC section for the prevention of HIV, which provides money to state health departments and other groups to test and prevent HIV monitoring and monitoring, searching for the prevention of HIV and care, and helps medical professionals in training and education.
“There is no way to achieve EHe goals without maintaining the infrastructure of the national protection on which it depends,” said Brooks. “There are all the reasons for worrying that new HIV infections will rise again.”
Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Junior, Ministry of Health and Humanitarian Services, with large -scale hairstyles at the Center for Diseases and Other Health Agencies that begin in early April. Claims are played for these mass extinguishing in federal courts.
The management budget plan will transfer HIV – with fewer employees, according to the People Healthbeat interview – to the administration for the health of America, and a new section of HHS has defended.
A HIV prevention doctor said that the medical surveillance project, which tracks the results, quality and gaps in the treatment of HIV, is scheduled to be a victim under the Trump restructuring plan.
Several CDC workers said that HHS officials did not communicate with the arrangement and the file about restructuring.
“It was cockroaches,” said HIV.
The proposed CDC budget for the White House for the next fiscal year contains a reduction of more than 50 %, as it decreased from 9.2 billion dollars in the fiscal year 2025 to about $ 4.2 billion, according to management documents and advocacy groups for public health, while transferring some agency functions to the proposed AHA. The Senate Committee, through a huge vote, achieved billions of dollars in the agency’s budget and refused to fund AHA.
American Senator John Osov, a democratic in Georgia, thanked the committee for “rejecting an unacceptable effort to calm most of the center of diseases.”
“The budget request from the White House included a 56 % reduction to the world’s prominent epidemiological agency,” Osov said. He also criticized “a systematic destruction of morale in the center of diseases control, and the solution of the entire agencies focuses on the health of the mother and the prevention of nascent diseases in the center of diseases control.”
“If most states do not see, they have no funding for HIV.” “This means that most countries will not be able to conduct any HIV test, or any referral to care, and/or referring to preventive services such as preparatory,” or prevention before exposure, which is a drug It can prevent HIV infection.
She said: “This means that countries will not be able to help people reach medicines, and this means that we will see new cases and increase the spread of HIV throughout the United States.”
She added: “Certainly we will see the demobilization of workers in the center of diseases control, and I think we may see them in the sections of the state’s health and community organizations as well.”
The Ministry of Public Health in the Los Angeles Province has delivered or resets dozens of HIV workers due to financing problems, according to a statement sent via email to Healthbeat.
“I am afraid that all HIV prevention will disappear,” said HIV. “I don’t think this administration wants to work from HIV prevention by the federal government.”
Georgia leads the American states in the rate of new HIV infections, according to the latest data AIDSPO. The workers of the Disease Control Center also said they are concerned that weak color communities and LGBTQ societies will be severely affected by financing discounts.
HIV doctor said that other information provided by the medical surveillance project about access to care will disappear. He said that the information related to prevention and treatment will diminish for deprived persons, including those who suffer from drug or mental illness problems, transgender people, and those who live in poverty.
The doctor said: “There is a lot of anger and sadness among people to end the project,” the doctor said. “He has gone a lot of enthusiasm.”
Patrick Sullivan, an effective house test program for HIV plans to close this fall. Together Takemehome The main scientist of the project and a professor at the Rollins College of Public Health at Emory University. In his notification of canceling the project financing, the Disease Control Center said that he no longer has employees to supervise him. Founded at Emory, the project has delivered more than 900,000 free home test sets for people all over the country through an easy -to -use website and integrate with dating applications.
The employees who were interviewed by Healthbeat said that more than 100 HIV workers were among more than 450 employees of the Disease Control Center. Some cited Media coverageSupport in Congress, calling by patient groups and pharmaceutical companies to restore them. “Members of Congress will go to the bats of HIV.”
Many of them closely monitor a lawsuit filed by 20 democratic lawyers, who seek to stop the Kennedy restructuring plan. He announced in March. They also pay attention to a lawsuit in California that challenges shooting.
A few people whose jobs have been restored or moved have retired. “Some people do not trust that we will stay, so they leave,” said HIV.
The laboratory scientist said that in the laboratory of sexually transmitted injuries at the Center for Disease Control in Atlanta, the work was also slowing due to the shrinkage of employees and new spending restrictions on supplies.
Scientists said that laboratory workers who were restored focus on high priority areas such as syphilis and gonorrhea, while other diseases were flammable, adding that “a lot of what we did was stay before the next nurse, and we feel that our time and effort to do so are now limited.”
The science said: “We are all public health because we know what the task is.” “We just want to accomplish our job and protect the American public.”
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