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Commissioner Whitty proposes $3 million local backstop to replace at‑risk HIV/STI grants
Summary
Commissioner Jacob Whitty presented a draft recommendation asking the commission to urge local guarantee of core HIV/STI services — contact tracing, surveillance and treatment linkage — and offered a starting budget figure of $3 million to cover the highest‑risk $2.5 million in threatened grant funding; commissioners recommended further cost breakdown and separating budget and programmatic language.
Commissioner Jacob Whitty presented a draft recommendation asking the Austin‑Travis County Public Health Commission to press for stable, local funding to preserve core HIV and STI prevention and treatment services amid threats to grant funding.
Whitty said the recommendation focuses on ensuring long‑term funding for prevention, testing, linkage to care, treatment retention and supportive services that local public health…
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