Trump announces HIV, children’s cancer initiatives

In the State of the Union speech, President Donald Trump announced initiatives to slash the rate of HIV transmission in the U.S. and to increase investments in research to treat pediatric cancer.

The HIV initiative seeks to “reduce new infections by 75 percent in the next five years and by 90 percent in the next 10 years, averting more than 250,000 HIV infections in that span,” according to HHS...