State Department warned employees "refrain from publicly promoting World AIDS Day through any communication channels"

[BlueWaveNeverEnd]

https://www.nytimes.com/2025/11/26/health/trump-us-world-aids-day.html

Trump Administration Will No Longer Commemorate World AIDS Day
The State Department warned employees not to use government funds for the occasion and to “refrain from publicly promoting World AIDS Day through any communication channels.”

Every year since 1988, the United States has marked Dec. 1 as World AIDS Day, when people mourn those who died of the disease, honor efforts to contain the epidemic and raise awareness among the general public.

Not this year.

The State Department this month instructed employees and grantees not to use funds from the United States government to commemorate the day. The directive is part of a broader policy “to refrain from messaging on any commemorative days, including World AIDS Day,” according to an email viewed by The New York Times.

Employees and grantees may still “tout the work” being done through various programs “to counter this dangerous disease and other infectious diseases around the world,” the email said. And they may attend events related to the commemoration.

But they should “refrain from publicly promoting World AIDS Day through any communication channels, including social media, media engagements, speeches or other public-facing messaging.”


Tommy Pigott, a State Department spokesman, said the Trump administration was modernizing its approach to countering infectious diseases.

“An awareness day is not a strategy,” he said. “Under the leadership of President Trump, the State Department is working directly with foreign governments to save lives and increase their responsibility and burden sharing.”

[CurtEastPoint]

1. So if 'awareness' is not a strategy..... what happens to....

[sakabatou]

3. Most likely, it means the government won't say anything about them

At worst, they'll cut even more funding from health services across the board.

[Wednesdays]

5. Yeah, just like with COVID testing...

...if no one talks about it, the problem just goes away!

[BlueWaveNeverEnd]

4. Rfk jr probably has some weird theory about the causes of those conditions

[Beartracks]

2. The Trump regime's "All Days Matter" strategy.

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[Jack Valentino]

6. YES, it is always better if people are not 'aware', otherwise they might not DIE from it!

(which seems to be the dominant health 'strategy' of the Trump Administration!)


Then again, news about that terrible disease has now almost disappeared completely
from public discourse--- because of the TRIUMPH over it by
SCIENCE AND MEDICINE---- things which this admin surely does not wish to promote!

(I recall back around 1991-2 when basketball star Earvin Johnson,
then playing for the LA Lakers team, publicly announced that he had contracted the virus--
which was huge terrible news--
it was discussed at great length among my co-workers, we all presumed that it was a 'death sentence',
but he is still alive....... he was a local boy, went to the same high school as my older sister,
which I later also attended... Everett High School, Lansing Michigan)

((of course in 1991-2 and beyond, Earvin Johnson was a millionaire
who could afford the absolute best health care which was then available---
but today, I cannot recall when I last read about anyone dying from 'the AIDS virus' ))

Not much thanks to former President Ronald Reagan either,
whose initial reaction seems to have been
'well, they're all gay men so they probably deserve to die from it'

[spanone]

7. Fuck the trmp administration.

Couldn't hate them more.

[Initech]

8. Can we not promote the fucking asshole instead?

That would be more beneficial to this country. Fuck him.