San Francisco officials allocated $2.6 million for local HIV programs over the next two years in the fiscal budget adopted by the Board of Supervisors Tuesday that advocates had been seeking.
The funding includes money to address the mental health and housing needs of long-term HIV survivors. Also on July 27 the federal Centers for Disease Control and Prevention announced $117 million in funding for states and local health departments as part of the second major round of investment in the federal Ending the HIV Epidemic in the U.S. (EHE) initiative.
San Francisco will receive $3.09 million of the funds. "That funding will certainly help to shore up the system of care for people living with, and at risk for, HIV," said AIDS Legal Referral