In June, six members of President Donald Trump's Presidential Advisory Council on HIV/AIDS (PACHA), resigned over the presidents’s policies on health care. The 22 member council was responsible for advising the secretary of Health and Human Services on the best HIV treatment and prevention strategies. 

“The Trump Administration has no strategy to address the on-going HIV/AIDS epidemic, seeks zero input from experts to formulate HIV policy, and—most concerning—pushes legislation that will harm people living with HIV and halt or reverse important gains made in the fight against this disease,” Scott Schoettes, counsel and HIV Project director at Lambda Legal, wrote at the time. 

And now, the remaining 16 members of PACHA have been told they were fired on Wednesday by means of a FedExed letter from the White House. 

Gabriel Maldonado, a PACHA adviser, confirmed the firings, but said the “explanation is still unclear.”  

"Like any administration, they want their own people there,” Maldonado told the Washington Blade. “Many of us were Obama appointees. I was an Obama appointee and my term was continuing until 2018.” 

Scott Schoettes, a council member who quit in June, called the Trump move a “purge:” 

Twitter users didn't seem to be surprised by the news. 

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