He called 2020 “a lost year” for the HIV fight, even amid the launch of a federal plan called Ending the HIV Epidemic in the U.S., or EHE. Demetre Daskalakis, the director of the CDC’s Division of HIV/AIDS Prevention.
“We definitely had a hit from Covid-19,” said Dr. It even remains possible that, after decades of hard-fought declines, the national HIV transmission rate has crept up again. CDC officials have expressed concern that the extraordinary disruptions the country’s Covid response have caused to HIV-related services have inflicted collateral damage that could take years to undo.