The National Institutes of Health’s (NIH) support for federal guidelines that steer the treatment of more than a million HIV patients in the United States will be phased out by June 2026, according to the agency's Office of AIDS Research, a move that troubled some doctors and raised questions about whether the guidelines themselves will change.
It is unclear whether Health and Human Services Secretary Robert F. Kennedy, Jr. plans to bring the guidance in-line with his own conspiracy-theorist views about an infectious disease that 30 years ago was the leading cause of death for people 25 to 44 years old.
The Office of AIDS Research (OAR), which is part of the NIH, informed members of the panels responsible for the guidelines in a letter that, "in the climate of budget decreases and revised priorities, OAR is beginning to explore options to transfer management of the guidelines to another agency within" HHS.
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