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Trump budget proposal cuts billions and would ‘devastate’ healthcare programs

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Despite criticism over his initial proposal in March that included huge cuts to the Department of Health and Human Services, National Institutes of Health and Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, President Trump’s fleshed-out 2018 budget will slash billions from those health programs in order to spend more on the military and cover planned tax cuts.

The full budget plan is due to be released this morning at 11 a.m., but the White House administration inadvertently posted the section (PDF) that dealt with cuts to the HHS late Monday before it quickly took it offline.

In addition to a proposal to eliminate $800 billion from Medicaid, the Trump administration wants to make deep cuts to other health programs, including:

  • $5.8 billion from the overall NIH budget, including $1 billion from the National Cancer Institute, $838 million from the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases and $575 million from the National Heart, Lung and Blood Institute
  • $1.2 billion from the CDC
  • $403 million from health workforce programs, including diversity training, mental and behavioral programs, and select nursing and physician training programs
  • $22 million from the Office of the National Coordinator for Health IT.

STDs Hit Historic High: CDC

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The number of cases of a sexually transmitted disease reported in the U.S. reached an all-time high last year, the CDC is reporting.

The combined total of reported chlamydia, gonorrhea, and syphilis cases was more than 1.8 million in 2015, the agency said in its annual Sexually Transmitted Disease Surveillance Report.

Those numbers are probably an underestimate, the agency said in a release, since most STD cases are undiagnosed and untreated. But the treated cases have reached an all-time — and expensive — high: the agency said it estimates the annual cost of therapy at nearly $16 billion.

The reported incidence of all three conditions rose from 2014 — by 5.9% for chlamydia, 12.8% for gonorrhea, and a whopping 19% for primary and secondary syphilis.

Zika is an STD: Why are we not calling it one?

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Zika is working its way around the United States. It’s spreading across Florida, and is before long expected to reach Texas, Louisiana and other Southern states. It is a dizzying trip, and one that isn’t going to end anytime soon.

The virus spreads from a type of mosquito that has now officially been confirmed to carry Zika in Miami Beach. A massive effort to kill them in South Carolina produced a disaster for the bee population there.
But while mosquitoes are a key menace when it comes to Zika, the media and public officials are too focused on them. They also need to pay attention to sex: If we are going to stop the spread of this disease, we are going to need better access to Zika testing for anyone who is sexually active in a Zika zone.