evidence: But the Vice President himself oversaw one state’s worst public health crisis of recent history whilst he was Governor of Indiana: an HIV outbreak fuelled by public healthcare cuts and a ban on distributing clean needles. [...] In 2013, during Pence’s first year as Governor of Indiana, the one Planned Parenthood clinic in Scott County was forced to close by public spending cuts, leaving the county’s 24,000 residents with no HIV testing centre. [...] Public health experts in Indiana wished the Governor had acted more swiftly to halt the outbreak.