"Major provisions of H.R. 1 (the "One Big Beautiful Bill Act") are taking effect and placing significant strain on San Francisco's city budget, with the city now facing difficult choices on how to close a two-year, $643 million budget deficit."
"Public health, LGBTQ+ care, harm reduction, and HIV prevention are on the line. In late April, the Department of Public Health (SFDPH) presented more information about the many community-based programs and services that will be cut in an effort to reduce SFDPH's budget by $20 million (on top of an already approved $17 million in community-based organization cuts, and millions more on internal SFDPH reductions)."
"The Health Access Point (HAP) network of care, which provides culturally tailored HIV and STI prevention and treatment, overdose prevention, and hepatitis C testing and treatment to populations across San Francisco (including Black and African American communities, Latine communities, and transgender communities) will receive cuts. Funding for San Francisco AIDS Foundation's (SFAF) clinical services-which provide PrEP care to more than 3,000 clients per year-will be reduced."
"Two youth clinics and one geriatric clinic will close. Harm reduction services, including SFAF's syringe Pick Up Crew, which picks up drug-related litter and also distributes the overdose prevention medicine naloxone, will experience cuts."
Major provisions of H.R. 1 are taking effect and creating significant strain on San Francisco’s city budget, which faces a two-year $643 million deficit. San Francisco Department of Public Health is reducing its budget by $20 million, on top of previously approved $17 million in community-based organization cuts and additional internal reductions. Community-based programs for public health, LGBTQ+ care, harm reduction, and HIV prevention are being cut citywide, affecting vulnerable and underserved groups. The Health Access Point network will face cuts to culturally tailored HIV and STI prevention and treatment, overdose prevention, and hepatitis C testing and treatment. San Francisco AIDS Foundation clinical services providing PrEP care to more than 3,000 clients per year will be reduced, two youth clinics and one geriatric clinic will close, and harm reduction services including the syringe Pick Up Crew distributing naloxone will experience cuts.
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