In the Black: The Trump Budget, Black Communities, and the HIV Epidemic

A Community Roundtable

President Donald Trump’s Fiscal Year 2018 budget proposal includes severe cuts to many HIV and related programs.

$59 million cut to Ryan White Programs
Elimination of AIDS Education and Training Centers (AETC)
Elimination of Special Programs of National Significance (SPNS)
A nearly 20% cut to Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC)’s, HIV prevention programs.
An unprecedented $630 million cap on Medicaid spending
$26 million cut from HUD’s Housing Opportunities for People with AIDS (HOPWA) program
Elimination of the Minority AIDS Initiative fund

These cuts will weaken our state’s already fragile social safety net and have catastrophic consequences for Georgians living with HIV. Communities already disproportionately impacted by HIV, particularly African-Americans, will be particularly vulnerable. We must respond.

Join Georgia Equality, Counter Narrative Project, Lambda Legal, THRIVE SS and other community leaders and organizations for a community roundtable on the following topics:

– Updates on the current impact of HIV on metropolitical Atlanta and Georgia communities.

– Overview of proposed budget cuts to Ryan White, CDC and HOPWA and how this will impact services going forward

– Information on Medicaid block grants and AHCA

Event Information

Tuesday June 13th

7pm-8:30pm

Phillip Rush Center Annex

328 Mell Avenue Suite B

Atlanta, GA 30307

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