{"id":43344,"date":"2009-11-17T08:32:03","date_gmt":"2009-11-17T13:32:03","guid":{"rendered":"6a598cf9-3c5e-482d-bb7d-9e7949d9cb72"},"modified":"2009-11-17T08:32:03","modified_gmt":"2009-11-17T13:32:03","slug":"aids-advocates-ask-white-house-to-send-money-south","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/43344","title":{"rendered":"AIDS Advocates Ask White House To Send Money South"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\n      <a href=\"http:\/\/www.wlbt.com\/Global\/story.asp?S=11517930\">WLBT<\/a>: &#8220;The White House Office of National AIDS Policy chose Jackson [Mississipppi]\u00a0to host an HIV\/AIDS town hall meeting Monday night. The community discussion allowed Mississippians to give feedback that will be included in a national strategy to end the HIV\/AIDS epidemic. &#8230; Many asked for sex and STD education in the schools, more doctors and transportation funding in rural areas and health insurance&#8221; (Anderson, 11\/17).<\/p>\n<p>\n      <a href=\"http:\/\/www.google.com\/hostednews\/ap\/article\/ALeqM5jictuPQ42Z_EPuv9JAS_X1iMM_CQD9C0IK1O1\" >The Associated Press<\/a>: &#8220;Activists and the health care providers cite a need for more federal and state funding for outreach and drug assistance programs, as well as transportation for patients who have to travel from small towns to get care.&#8221; The meeting was with Jeffrey Crowley, director of the White House Office of National AIDS Policy. According to advocacy group the Southern AIDS Coalition, the &#8220;South leads the nation in the percentage of AIDS-related deaths. Yet, the region ranks last when it comes to overall federal dollars spent on an HIV-infected person at $6,565 a year, according to the coalition.&#8221; Activists say the recent $2.2 billion Ryan White HIV\/AIDS extension last month won&#8217;t provide enough money for the south to keep pace with new cases (Byrd, 11\/16).<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~r\/khn\/fulltext\/~4\/R5bJkj8MdbA\" height=\"1\" width=\"1\"\/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>WLBT: &#8220;The White House Office of National AIDS Policy chose Jackson [Mississipppi]\u00a0to host an HIV\/AIDS town hall meeting Monday night. The community discussion allowed Mississippians to give feedback that will be included in a national strategy to end the HIV\/AIDS epidemic. &#8230; Many asked for sex and STD education in the schools, more doctors and [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-43344","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/43344","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=43344"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/43344\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=43344"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=43344"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=43344"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}