NY Budget Gets High Grade From Gay Group

Albany, New York) Health and human service providers across New York State targeting LGBT communities will receive almost $8 million from the 2008-09 State Budget.

"We know that this is a difficult time for New York State fiscally and we are very pleased that Governor Paterson and the Assembly have essentially maintained the historic level of funding that our community received in last year’s budget,” said Empire State Pride Agenda Executive Director Alan Van Capelle.

The new budget increases the funding to its highest level in years said Van Capelle.

note: This is all very interesting considering the fact that Mayor Bloomberg just abolished the New York City LGBT Health Dept.

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New York: HIV increase

HIV is staging a comeback among young gay men in New York, with new cases increasing by a third in those younger than 30 and doubling among teens in the past six years, health officials said yesterday.

"A generation of men is growing up having not seen their friends die of AIDS, and maybe having the impression that HIV is not such a terrible infection," Frieden said.

Gay black and Hispanic youth are most profoundly affected by the growing number of infections, with 81 of 87 new cases last year occurring in those groups.

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