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Health department warns federal HIV funding has fallen; advocates urge sustained local backfills
Summary
DPH officials told the committee that federal HIV prevention and care funding has declined over decades and that recent CDC formula changes shifted prevention dollars; advocates and long‑term survivors warned proposed funding shifts risk destabilizing the safety net and asked the city to backfill cuts and expand housing and mental‑health support.
Department of Public Health officials outlined changes in federal HIV funding and a proposed reorganization of prevention services at a May 4 Budget & Appropriations Committee hearing, prompting repeated pleas from providers and long‑term survivors to maintain local backfill and bolster services for aging people with HIV.
Bill Bloom, director of HIV Health Services, told supervisors that federal funding for HIV care has trended downward over two decades and that current HIV‑care funding is ‘‘just a little over $15,000,000,’’ noting the city has…
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