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Nov 12, 2026

CDC cuts $29.2M in HIV prevention funds for Texas

The CDC has cut $29.2 million from HIV prevention programs in Texas, continuing a pattern of federal reductions to domestic and global HIV prevention efforts.

Nov 12, 20262 sources

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▪Texas community-based organizations will receive only $1.2 million from the CDC replacement award, down from more than $3 million annually under PS21-2102
▪Texas ranks fifth in the nation for new HIV diagnoses per capita, according to 2024 data from AIDSVu, a mapping tool developed at Emory University in partnership with Gilead Sciences
▪Texas state Representative Venton Jones, a Dallas Democrat and the first openly HIV-positive lawmaker to serve in the Texas Legislature, vowed to work to replace the eliminated federal HIV prevention dollars

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Budget cuts1 Centers for Disease Control and Prevention1 Government and Regulatory Policy1 Health screening1 National Institutes of Health1 Public health funding1 Texas1 Trump administration1 Trump administration healthcare policy1

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