{"id":55730,"date":"2017-12-30T04:36:55","date_gmt":"2017-12-30T04:36:55","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.biphoo.com\/bipnews\/?p=55730"},"modified":"2017-12-30T04:36:55","modified_gmt":"2017-12-30T04:36:55","slug":"trump-terminates-remaining-hivaids-advisory-council-appointments","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.biphoo.com\/bipnews\/news\/trump-terminates-remaining-hivaids-advisory-council-appointments.html","title":{"rendered":"Trump terminates remaining HIV\/AIDS advisory council appointments"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2 style=\"text-align: justify\"><span style=\"font-size: 18pt\"><strong><span style=\"font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;color: #000000\">Trump terminates remaining HIV\/AIDS advisory council appointments<\/span><\/strong><\/span><\/h2>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify\"><span style=\"font-size: 14pt;font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;color: #000000\">Trump terminates remaining HIV\/AIDS advisory council appointments:- The Trump administration has terminated the appointments of the remaining members of the Presidential Advisory Council on HIV\/AIDS, a statement from the council&#8217;s executive director confirmed this week.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify\"><span style=\"font-size: 14pt;font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;color: #000000\">The dismissals come after six members resigned in June, citing &#8220;a President who simply does not care,&#8221; according to a Newsweek op-ed written by one member at the time.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify\"><span style=\"font-size: 14pt;font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;color: #000000\">The move is part of the Trump administration&#8217;s effort to &#8220;bring in new voices,&#8221; the council&#8217;s executive director B. Kaye Hayes said in a statement. But the jettisoned members are also encouraged to reapply to the new council, which will begin in 2018.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify\"><span style=\"font-size: 14pt;font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;color: #000000\">&#8220;The current members of Presidential Advisory Council on HIV\/AIDS (PACHA) received a letter informing them that the administration was terminating their appointments,&#8221; Hayes said.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify\"><span style=\"font-size: 14pt;font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;color: #000000\">&#8220;Changing the makeup of federal advisory committee members is a common occurrence during Administration changes,&#8221; she added, noting that similar moves were made by both the Obama and George W. Bush administrations.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify\"><span style=\"font-size: 14pt;font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;color: #000000\">The council &#8212; known as PACHA &#8212; was founded in 1995 during the Clinton administration to provide guidance on HIV treatment and prevention.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify\"><span style=\"font-size: 14pt;font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;color: #000000\">The June op-ed, in which Scott Schoettes outlined his reasons for resigning, was headlined: &#8220;Trump doesn&#8217;t care about HIV. We&#8217;re outta here.&#8221;<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify\"><span style=\"font-size: 14pt;font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;color: #000000\">&#8220;We cannot ignore the many signs that the Trump Administration does not take the on-going epidemic, or the needs of people living with HIV, seriously,&#8221; wrote Schoettes, the HIV project director for Lambda Legal, a civil rights organization focused on the LGBT community and people living with HIV. 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