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Podcast: This Is Nashville
Episode: What Tennessee's rejection of federal HIV testing, prevention funds mean for Nashville
Description: In January the Tennessee Department of Health announced that the state will no longer accept funding from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention for HIV prevention, testing and treatment.
Around 20,000 Tennesseans are living with HIV, and the CDC estimates that 14% of Tennesseans with HIV are unaware of their status. The funding will run out at the end of May, and there is no set plan of how the state will compensate for this lack of federal money. So, how did we get here?
In this episode, we look into the why the state made th...