- Jaxon White/WITF
Dozens of people living with HIV across southcentral Pennsylvania could soon lose aid for housing and prescription costs after Gov. Josh Shapiro’s administration ordered a mid-year budget cut to the commonwealth’s regional HIV service providers.
If left unrestored, the cuts could lead to nearly 100 people diagnosed with HIV becoming homeless in southcentral Pennsylvania counties — including Cumberland, Dauphin, Lancaster and York — according to a memo circulated among lawmakers by the Family Health Council of Central Pennsylvania Inc. and obtained by WITF.
“The loss of funding to support safe and stable housing for people with HIV in (the Family Health Council’s) region could result in not only poorer health outcomes for individuals, but potentially also in an increase in HIV infections in the region,” the Family Health Council’s memo reads…