If you missed my first story, you can read it here: rollcall.com/2026/04/27/d...
I have found it incredibly rewarding to talk to people cured of hep C about how it changed their lives. More stories to come!
The Trump admin terminated NIH grant funding for a long-running research network that studied HIV in adolescents.
One of the immediate impacts of this is a cancelled study to examine whether an antibiotic currently only approved for men to prevent STDs can also work in women.
All in all, it's a weird time to get public health spending through Congress. I haven't even gotten into reemerging policies that will harm people who inject drugs, the primary group of people impacted by hep C. That will come in future stories.