Save ADAP: Fight California’s Cuts

Project Inform: Leadership in fighting
California’s devastating HIV/AIDS budget cuts

Project Inform is shocked at Governor Schwarzenegger’s budget veto that gutted vital HIV care, testing, housing and prevention services in the final Fiscal Year 2010-11 budget amendment.

California lawmakers had the monumental task of closing a $24 billion budget deficit and were forced to craft an amendment to the previously signed FY 2010-11 budget that would achieve that end. The Governor proposed deep cuts in health, human services and education, including the HIV/AIDS budget. The Legislature had agreed to a compromise proposal that would have allowed for responsible cuts — however, the State Assembly failed to approve $1.1 billion in increased revenues and the Governor used his line-item veto authority to eliminate state funding for all HIV programs except the AIDS Drug Assistance Program (ADAP) and surveillance.

These cuts will severely impact the ability to provide care for low-income people with HIV, identify people who are HIV-positive and don’t yet know their status, and prevent new infections in California. Not only is this an inhumane and shortsighted policy, but it comes at a time when the federal government has recognized the critical need to reinvigorate the fight against HIV disease in the United States.

BACKGROUND:

What got cut? And from where? And what does it mean for HIV care and prevention?

ACTION:

What is Project Inform doing about these cuts?

 

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