Long-time AIDS advocate State Rep. Sara Feigenholtz (D-Chicago) convened on January 22, 2010 an Illinois House panel on the state’s HIV funding crisis. The AIDS Foundation of Chicago and Illinois Public Health Association coordinated testimony.
If additional state funding is not identified next fiscal year, advocates told the panel, hundreds of low-income people with HIV may be...
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The state has a $26 billion budget this year. Next fiscal year, which begins in July, there will only $13 billion available. Without revenue reform, the AIDS Drug Assistance Program (ADAP) will be on the brink of collapse beginning in July, 2010. The challenges ahead are daunting, and the consequences are extraordinary for people with or at risk of HIV. Read more.. .
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It’s this simple: State operations cost $26 billion per year, but the state is projected to collect revenue totaling just $13 billion in the fiscal year that begins July 1, 2010. Unless lawmakers identify new revenue to close this colossal deficit, hundreds of people will lose life-saving HIV medications, thousands will be denied essential services, and tens of thousands will go without prevention...
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