Under the helmet first:
"The hidden problems began when he returned home....
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"Mass. services for HIV face cuts; Agencies fear rise in infections as US shifts funding" August 15, 2011|By Kay Lazar, Globe Staff
Deep cuts in federal funding will force Massachusetts to immediately slash or eliminate many key HIV and AIDS prevention services, programs that were central to driving down the infection rates in the state by more than 50 percent over the past decade, according to a top Patrick administration official.
But they have money to research a new helmet for the unending wars based on lies.
The state Department of Public Health began notifying a network of community health agencies on Friday about the $4.3 million reduction, which is roughly one-quarter of the state’s annual AIDS prevention budget.
Services that will be cut back include distribution of free condoms to schools, colleges, and health facilities, and programs that give intravenous drug users clean needles, said Kevin Cranston, director of the state Bureau of Infectious Disease.
Actually, I'm for the cuts. I don't think it is the federal government's business to be promoting sex in school or enabling drug addicts by giving them needles. Maybe if they laid off the pot prohibition I would be a little more understanding.
A program that sends education counselors to night clubs and other areas frequented by gay men, a population that has historically had the highest infection rates, will be eliminated.
What a GREAT JOB at TAXPAYER EXPENSE, huh?
And maybe I would be ALL FOR IT if the country were not BANKRUPT and WASTING TRILLIONS on WARS!!
Billboards, radio, and other media ads promoting HIV testing and prevention programs will be scrapped. So, too, will be training for community case managers who work directly with AIDS patients.
Fueling the cuts is a dramatic shift in the way the federal Centers for Disease Control and Prevention will be funding state AIDS prevention programs.
The CDC is taking money from states like Massachusetts with lower rates of HIV infection to focus its resources in states, including many in the South, with high or increasing rates. New regulations will also significantly restrict the way Massachusetts can spend its federal HIV prevention dollars, a change that will compound the cuts. It will require the state to shift money from community-based programs that aim to prevent further infections to clinic-based HIV testing and programs targeted to people who are already infected.
We are “ensuring that money actually follows the epidemic,’’ Dr. Kevin Fenton, director of CDC’s National Center for HIV/AIDS, Viral Hepatitis, STD, and TB Prevention, said during a recent press conference.
“As we move forward in these challenging economic times … we have to maximize the availability of every dollar,’’ he said....
But just pay those Pentagon cost overruns.
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