Progress toward preventing HIV in the U.S. has leveled in recent years because treatment for the virus isn't reaching those who need it most, according to health officials. A report from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) released Wednesday claimed that the decline in cases of HIV, or human immunodeficiency virus, "has stalled" — just weeks after President Trump vowed to end the HIV epidemic in the U.S. by 2030. INSIDE TRUMP'S PLAN TO END THE HIV EPIDEMIC AND WHAT SPARKED ITThe agency, in a news release, said that beginning in 2013, "the number of HIV infections began to level off" to roughly 39,000 infections each year, after previously declining for several years. The decline "has plateaued because effective HIV prevention and treatment are not adequately reaching those who could most benefit from them." Trump announced during his State of the Union address on Feb. 5 a campaign to end HIV in the country by 2030 — a plan which CDC Director Robert Redfield encouraged.

Source: Fox News February 27, 2019 23:15 UTC