The Food and Drug Administration guidelines finalized Thursday ease decades-old restrictions designed to protect the blood supply from HIV.

Starting June 1, the state will rely on state funds for HIV prevention efforts.

The 82 year-old veteran government official and infectious disease expert will officially retire at the end of 2022.

New HIV infections in the U.S. fell about 8% from 2015 to 2019, but Black and Latino communities continue to be disproportionately affected, according to CDC data.

These laws are long overdue for a change, advocates and lawmakers say.

Trump refused to mention LGBTQ people in all four of his World AIDS Day proclamations.

The vice president’s handling of the earlier public health crisis has come under renewed scrutiny following Trump’s decision to put him at the head of the coronavirus response.