The CDC on Friday is scrubbing a swath of HIV-related content from the agency’s website as a part of Trump’s broader effort to wipe out DEI initiatives.

The CDC has removed several HIV pages including key resources for health care providers after federal agencies were told to comply with a White House order on removing certain language pertaining to diversity,

Several US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention websites and datasets related to HIV, LGBTQ people, youth health behaviors and more have been removed after the agency was directed to comply with an executive order from President Donald Trump.

CDC data’s “explicit purpose” is to guide researchers toward the places and people who most need attention, Patrick Sullivan, an epidemiologist at Emory University and a former CDC Epidemic Intelligence Service officer, told me. As the changes unfold before him, he said, “it’s hard to understand how this benefits health.”

The CDC has begun removing from its website words and pages relating to diversity, gender identity, or LGBTQ issues, according to several sources.

The U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention and other federal health agencies on Friday took down webpages with information on HIV statistics and other data to comply with Trump administration orders on gender identity and diversity,

Data from an expansive federal survey on youth behavioral habits, including their sexual orientation and gender identity, have been removed from the website of the CDC.

Among the information scrubbed from the US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) websites was statistics on HIV among transgender people.

The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention appeared to take down webpages that related to gender identity and sexual orientation.

Large sets of data are being scrubbed of references to transgender and LGBTQ people, among others, which could compromise their use in research

CDC webpages that appear to have been removed include statistics on HIV among transgender people and data on health disparities among gay, lesbian, bisexual and transgender youth.

Trump's executive order prohibiting federal agencies from making any mention of "gender ideology" has forced the CDC to remove HIV-related pages regardless of if they mentioned gender or not.