"For this work and other efforts to try to curb the spread of H.I.V. in the Nashville region, Ms. Binkley and her colleagues have relied heavily on federal grant money. So they were stunned when Tennessee’s health commissioner announced earlier this year that the state would no longer accept $8.8 million in federal grant money, which for more than a decade has been distributed among nonprofit groups, county health departments and health care organizations."
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https://www.nytimes.com/2023/03/24/us/tennessee-hiv-funding.html
@cyrilpedia @gregggonsalves wow such a stupid and short sided decision for a state government to take...truly sad and tragic as south eastern us is fast becoming the new HIV epidemic ground zero