ignoring therapy, pushing a vaccine. the solution to this i ve always felt was early treatment. we still haven t robustly explored that, and that s a travesty. wow. there is so much wrong with that statement. i don t think there is a way to overhype aids when more than 700,000 americans have died from hiv-related illness. not to mention these 36 million people who have died worldwide. oh, and the foolish senator from wisconsin made that dumb and foolish statement yesterday, on world aids day. i m joined by u.s. surgeon general dr. vivek murthy. i will not you are too bigified an individual to have to respond to ron johnson. i will leave his comments about hiv/aids to the side, an let s talk about omicron. my adult children live in new york. they ve been screen shooting and sending me info on omicron. it s really frightening because it feels like it is the next sort of wave of the pandemic, and it feels kind of
executive order creating the hiv care continuum initiative to boost our federal efforts to prevent and treat hiv. last month, i signed the hiv organ policy equity act to finally allow research into organ donations between people with hib, a step an chived with bipartisan support. thanks to the affordable care act, millions of americans will be able to get tested free of charge. americans uninsured will have access to affordable health care coverage and beginning in january, no american will be again denied health insurance because of their hiv status. you know, on world aids day, two years ago, i announce add additional $35 million for the aids drug assistance program, which helped people pay for life saving medications. at one time, the need was so great that over 9,000 people were on the wait list. we vowed to get those numbers down. i m proud to announce that as of last week, we have cleared that