Overview
- The Office of Management and Budget told the CDC in late July it will not reauthorize $46 million in community-based HIV prevention grants and the funds are being routed through state and local health departments instead.
- The five-year grants that had directly funded 96 community organizations nationwide were temporarily extended through September but grantees were told no new CDC announcement will come before that extension ends.
- The Aliveness Project in Minneapolis says it faces a loss of about $450,000 a year and warns the move could hollow out outreach that produced 6,297 tests, 56 positives (51 new diagnoses), and linked more than 96% to care within 30 days over five years.
- Grantee groups report little direct communication from the CDC or clear plans from state health officials, while HHS says the shift will let local health departments use local data to set priorities.
- Public-health experts and local advocates warn that moving money through state procurement and eligibility rules risks delays, reduced nonclinical outreach to people facing barriers to clinic care, and possible rises in undiagnosed infections.