Joe Biden is seeking to one-up President Trump on the fight against HIV by pledging to end the epidemic by 2025 — an ambitious goal that would beat the current administration’s goal by five years, although some HIV advocates are skeptical the presidential candidate can pull it off.
Biden laid out his plan to address HIV, which relies heavily on bolstering the Affordable Care Act, in a 20-page questionnaire submitted to a coalition of HIV/AIDS groups in June.
A chief component of his vision is updating the Obama administration’s National HIV/AIDS Strategy. “As President, I will re-commit to ending the HIV/AIDS epidemic by 2025,” Biden writes. “Updating the nation’s comprehensive HIV/AIDS strategy will aggressively reduce new HIV cases,