The US Department of Health and Human Services is reinstating more than 450 employees at the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention who were fired as part of a massive reorganization in April, including workers focused on HIV,

About 2,400 CDC employees lost their jobs in a wave of cuts across federal health agencies in early April, according to a tally at the time.

More than 460 employees at the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) have been reinstated after being laid off earlier this year, the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) confirmed Wednesday.