Administration to phase out NIH support of HIV clinical guidelines

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Health and Human Services Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. on May 12 inside the Roosevelt Room, where he was joined by, from left, National Institutes of Health Director Jay Bhattacharya, President Donald Trump and Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services Administrator Mehmet Oz. (Tom Brenner/For The Washington Post)

By Mark Johnson

The National Institutes of Health’s support for federal guidelines that steer the treatment of more than a million HIV patients in the United States will be phased out by next June, according to the agency’s Office of AIDS Research, a move that troubled some doctors and raised questions about whether the guidelines themselves will change.

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