preliminary budget request to Congress for fiscal year 2022, announced Friday, Biden is asking for $267 million over and above the $400 million that’s been appropriated annually for the program since 2019.
The fiscal year begins October 1.The initiative was launched under Biden’s predecessor with the goal of reducing new HIV infections by 90 percent by 2030, although Biden campaigned on a more ambitious goal of ending the epidemic by 2025.Its major components are expanding use of PrEP drugs — Truvada and Descovy are the two approved for this purpose so far — so that HIV-negative people do not acquire the virus during sex, and making sure HIV-positive people are on treatment.