Dr. Chopra acknowledged that staff kept saline bags and replaced the tubes between patients. However, she disputed allegations involving anesthetic vials.
This new center comes just days after the announcement that the Trump administration is terminating a program working on a vaccine for HIV.
The National Institutes of Health has halted funding for dozens of HIV-based research grants.
World AIDS Day highlights progress, honors lives lost, and calls for renewed efforts to combat HIV/AIDS.
HIV is not easily transmitted to another person. It can't be spread through saliva, sweat, tears, communal exercise or sharing a bathroom.
The CDC warns lack of such programs, could eventually cause an outbreak, as detailed in a letter sent last month to Philadelphia physician Ronald Collman.