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Independent, UK - The Trump administration’s newly proposed HIV funding cuts could threaten the health of thousands of Americans, researchers at the Johns Hopkins School of Medicine have warned. If the $1.5 billion cuts are implemented, the number of HIV infections over the next five years could surge by up to 10 percent across 18 states, computer modeling shows.

That would be a major blow to the decades-long, bipartisan effort to fight the incurable, lifelong illness, which is still responsible for close to 4,500 deaths each year.

The virus, which is also known as “human immunodeficiency virus, aggressively attacks the body’s immune system, and infections were widely considered a death sentence until the development of HIV treatments in the 1980s.