On World AIDS day, the *resident still frets it is something women can give him.

Today is World AIDS Day. The United Nations adopted the nascent annual event in 2004. It has gone from being an object silencing and derision to a remarkable arena of international cooperation.

The US President issues a proclamation of the day each year. The current occupant of the office published his yesterday.

In it, he took credit for the PEPFAR initiative of President George W. Bush, and cast AIDS as a disease mainly afflicting African women and girls:

We remain deeply committed to supporting adolescent girls and young women through this program, who are up to 14 times more likely to contract HIV than young men in some sub-Saharan African countries. Our efforts also include the DREAMS (Determined, Resilient, Empowered, AIDS‑free, Mentored, and Safe) public-private partnership, which has resulted in a 25–40 percent decline in new HIV infections among young women in districts in 10 highly affected African countries during the last 2 years.

Newsweek report that the *resident carried on a Republican tradition in his proclamation:

Trump is not the only president to overlook the community—Presidents George W. Bush and George H.W. Bush did not directly acknowledge gay Americans in their World AIDS Day speeches...

In June, six members of the Presidential Advisory Council on HIV/AIDs resigned in protest against the Trump Administration's disinterest. The Administration posted a notice seeking new member nominations today, two months after the *resident signed an order continuing the Council's existence for another two years.

MOTUS is terrified of STDs. He has stated he considered dating in the 1990s to have been his Vietnam, and once told Howard Stern he'd have had sex with the late Princess of Wales in  heartbeat- after she had an AIDS test: something he told AP he required of all his pussy-grabees in a 1991 interview.