A mural commissioned by the AIDS Service Foundation on Broadway Boulevard in Kansas City commemorates people lost to the HIV/AIDS epidemic. (Suzanne King/The Beacon)
As federal funding for HIV prevention and treatment programs becomes less certain, the number of people newly diagnosed with the virus in the Kansas City region is trending up.
Provisional data from the Kansas City Health Department show that an 11-county region in Missouri and Kansas saw 227 new cases in 2024, up from 206 the previous year…