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Trump Gutted AIDS Health Care at the Worst Possible Time
By the first World AIDS Day of his second term, Trump gutted LGBTQ+ employment globally and put humanity at greater risk of AIDS.
Steven W. Thrasher
Steven W. Thrasher, PhD is the author of the award-winning book "The Viral Underclass: The Human Toll When Inequality and Disease Collide." He is also the inaugural Daniel Renberg Chair for Social Justice in Reporting at the Medill School of Journalism and a faculty member of Northwestern University's Institute of Sexual and Gender Minority Health and Wellbeing. His writing on HIV/AIDS, infectious disease and LGBTQ people has been published by Scientific American, New York Times Times, Guardian and in academic journals.
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