The U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) and the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) complied with a judge’s order on Tuesday by restoring certain website pages and datasets that had been taken down to comply with a Trump administration order.
As of Wednesday, pages that were restored include CDC information pages on adolescent health, information on HIV monitoring and testing, contraception guidance, and data on how pollution, poverty, and other factors impact certain communities.
The FDA restored recommendations for enrolling more females in clinical trials, analyzing sex-specific data, and including sex-specific information in regulatory submissions.
Some CDC pages that were taken down earlier this month and in January, however, were still down as of Wednesday. They included ones with titles such as “Health Disparities Among LQBTQ Youth,” “Interim Clinical Considerations for Use of Vaccine for Mpox Prevention,” “Fast Facts: HIV and Transgender People,” and the page for the U.S. global HIV program called the “President’s Emergency Plan For AIDS Relief.”
Some CDC pages, including the front page of its website, now include a message saying that the site is being modified to comply with Trump’s recent orders.
On his first day back in the White House, Trump ordered agencies to use the term “sex” and not “gender” in federal policies and documents. The Office of Personnel Management’s acting director then required agency heads to eliminate any programs or websites that promote “gender ideology,” leading to widespread takedowns across government websites.
“This opinion has documented the harm [Doctors for America] members have suffered and will continue to suffer absent intervention, but the harm extends beyond them,” U.S. District Judge John Bates, with the federal court in Washington, wrote in the order.
Lawyers for the medical group, the judge wrote, were able to supply “declarations from doctors around the country who, although not DFA members themselves, are representative of the widespread disruption that defendants’ abrupt removal of these critical healthcare materials has caused.”
Another executive order also directed the CDC to stop working with the World Health Organization. HHS placed a pause on posts and reports issued by both the CDC and the FDA, subjecting them to review first, by Feb. 1.
The Epoch Times contacted the CDC and FDA for comment Wednesday.
