Tennessee will no longer accept federal HIV prevention funds..experts scratch their heads

[Demovictory9]

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Heard on public radio segment today. Googled to find lots of stories about this. TN will concentrate their own hiv otevention on women and children ..groups not atnrisk. WTF

https://wpln.org/post/episodes/hiv-funding-tennessee/

In January the Tennessee Department of Health announced that the state will no longer accept funding from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention for HIV prevention, testing and surveillance.

Around 20,000 Tennesseans are living with HIV, and the CDC estimates that 14% of Tennesseans with HIV are unaware of their status. The funding will run out at the end of May, and there is no set plan of how the state will compensate for this lack of federal money. So, how did we get here?

In this episode, we look into the why the state made this decision and talk to physicians and health advocates about potential long-term consequences. Tennessee Health Commissioner Dr. Ralph Alvarado was invited to join the panel, but declined.

[brush]

1. Stupid decision. The governor, somebody needs to rescind this.

[Lovie777]

2. I guess they want them to die .......

how Christian of them.

[Walleye]

3. What is it with these Republicans, it's like their constituents don't even exist

It’s all performative now. Turning down federal funds. They think this is standing on principle or something. Yes their people keep voting for Republicans

[Demovictory9]

4. Owning the libs by causing more death among lgbt poc males

[Walleye]

6. It's not fair, I know I have a screw loose, but I count on everybody else to be sane

[JI7]

9. Many if their constituents supporr these things which is how they get elected

[cbabe]

5. Repug playbook: Pence and hiv

https://www.factcheck.org/2020/02/pence-moved-slowly-in-combating-hiv-outbreak/

Pence Moved Slowly in Combating HIV Outbreak
By Rem Rieder

Posted on February 28, 2020

In an interview with Fox News’ Sean Hannity, newly crowned coronavirus point man Mike Pence spun the facts in claiming he moved decisively when confronted with a disturbing HIV outbreak in a rural Indiana county when he was governor of the state.

“We worked the problem early in the year from a law enforcement standpoint, from a health standpoint,” the vice president told Hannity on Feb. 27. “I don’t believe in needle exchanges as a way to combat drug abuse, but in this case, we came to the conclusion that we had a public health emergency, and so, I took executive action to make a limited needle exchange available.”

But Pence’s fellow Hoosier Pete Buttigieg, the former South Bend mayor now seeking the Democratic presidential nomination, says there’s more to the story. “He was dragged kicking and screaming into that,” Buttigieg told CNN’s Don Lemon on Feb. 27. “Had he acted earlier, I believe that the worst parts of the HIV epidemic could have been avoided.”

Buttigieg is right. An unusually high number of HIV cases in Scott County, Indiana, was first spotted by health authorities in November 2014. Pence did not declare a public health emergency and authorize a needle exchange program for the county until March 26, 2015.

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[Demovictory9]

7. @$!# pence!

[spanone]

8. This is a decision by our 'CHRISTIAN' governor bill lee.

MOTHERFUCKER.

FUCK HIM.

OUR LEGISLATORS ARE TOO BUSY BANNING DRAG SHOWS.

TENNESSEE TRULY SUCKS UNDER THIS HOUSE, SENATE AND REPUBLICAN GOVERNOR.