HIV funding cuts threaten South

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HIV advocate Cedric Sturdevant drives from Mississippi to Washington, D.C. to fight HIV funding cuts

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President Trump 's budget proposal for fiscal year 2026 threatens to curtail Medicaid coverage for people with low incomes and disabilities.

It also would end a strategic initiative to expand HIV services in minority communities.

Testing and outreach for HIV faltered in the South , a region that accounts for more than half of all HIV diagnoses.

HIV advocates have begun to organize and strategize ways to limit the damage.

HIV experts had failed to overcome a key problem: Roughly a third of people living with HIV in the U.S. don’t get treated or take the drugs regularly enough to be virally suppressed.

To curb the epidemic, policymakers needed to address underlying problems that people with HIV faced.

Federal funds began to flow to grassroots groups embedded in marginalized communities.

Now the grassroots groups that have been so effective are in jeopardy.

HIV advocates are trying to fill in the vacuum in HIV care that the government is poised to leave.

The heads of national HIV organizations have stepped up their advocacy, asking Congress to oppose cuts in President Trump ’s budget request.

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