Florida has reversed funding cuts for HIV medication — but only until it can go through the formal rule-making process.
Advocate news story
The Florida Department of Health is reversing its funding cuts to a program that provides HIV medication for low-income individuals, but only until they can do it legally.
The department published a notice Tuesday (February 3) backtracking its decision to gut the AIDS Drug Assistance Program after supposedly failing to find $120 million in the state budget to cover it. Instead, the state will attempt to go through the formal rule-making process in order to make the cuts after a lawsuit from the AIDS Healthcare Foundation accused officials of violating the law.
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Source : Advocate
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