As of April 1, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention has shut down its Maternal and Child Health Branch, which works with other countries to ensure that mothers and children at risk of or infected by HIV receive treatment. All 22 staff were terminated.
That’s one of the ways that global health will be affected by the 25% reduction in staff and 35% reduction in contracts for the agency — ordered on April 1 by Secretary of Health and Human Services Robert F. Kennedy Jr. as part of an effort to “reduce bureaucratic sprawl.”