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AIDS Healthcare Foundation
Stimulus: Florida AIDS Patients, RNs Lobby Congress for Funding for HIV Testing
January 31st, 2009
As the HIV/AIDS epidemic continues to have a disproportionate—and devastating—impact throughout the Southern United States, a group of AIDS patients, nurses and medical providers from Florida are visiting Washington, DC this week for a series of meetings on Capitol Hill with Senate and Congressional leaders to lobby Congress to include funding for HIV testing throughout the hard-hit South as part of the nation’s economic stimulus legislation currently being drafted. The group, all of whom are patients or medical providers of AIDS Healthcare Foundation (AHF), will lobby Congress for funding for an expansion of the current Centers for Disease Control (CDC) HIV testing program to do over...
Source: Law & Health Weekly (2009-01-31)
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