The Republican Party Slashes HIV/AIDS Funds in a New Appropriation Bill


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Maria Mejia.

They are trying to wipe us out, and we will fight till the end.

I didn't want to write a harmful blog, but it's my duty. As the title says, the Republican Party is proposing an appropriation bill to cut significant HIV/AIDS funds. We condemn the new labor, health, and human services appropriations bill that cuts billions of dollars in life-saving programs, and we will not go down quickly. We will fight till the end of us.

It is disgusting and shameful that these people that call themselves followers of Christ (at least most of them) are doing this to people that are suffering from this human condition, and that we all know that the essential services that people living with HIV and AIDS receive like access to treatment and much more is less of a burden to the system because if we are thriving by have access to treatment and becoming undetectable, we cannot pass HIV sexually to anyone. That and much more will affect people living with this condition and as we know, if people fall through the cracks of the system and become detectable because of loss of services, many will die, they will be able to pass HIV, and HIV will not stop with us! Continue reading...

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