Trump bans travel for US government scientists and restricts presentations of research
23 January 2025. Related: Early access, Treatment access, Treatment advocacy, Research studies.
Simon Collins, HIV i-Base
US-funded scientific research and global healthcare look to be early targets of the new US administration and this will destabilise many HIV related programmes.
In addition to withdrawing US membership of WHO, travel linked to ongoing research and any dissemination of research results have also been suspended indefinitely.
On 22 January 2025, an independent online report includes that researchers “were informed that any public presentations at conferences or meetings must now be cleared by a presidential appointee.” [1]
The Trump administration has also “instructed federal health agencies to pause all external communications such as health advisories weekly scientific reports updates to websites and social media posts. The announcement impacts the NIH as well as the FDA CDC and HHS.”
The US treatment activist organisation TAG has also issued several public statements challenging the scientific denialism, with executive orders denying recognition of transgender and non-binary people. [2]
Please see the linked articles for full details.
Reference
- Kabas M. National Institutes of Health ordered by Trump admin to enact ‘immediate and indefinite’ travel suspension. The Handbag (22 January 2025).
www.thehandbasket.co/p/nih-travel-suspension-trump - TAG press release. TAG Rejects the Transphobia and Science Denialism of the New Presidential Administration. (22 March 2025).
www.treatmentactiongroup.org/statement/tag-rejects-the-transphobia-and-science-denialism-of-the-new-presidential-administrationon-must-be-rejected/