HIV Plan Sends $4.5 Million to Three Cities for Pilot Program

President Donald Trump’s plan to end the HIV epidemic in the U.S. will find its footing in Baltimore; East Baton Rouge Parish, La.; and Dekalb County, Ga., the administration said July 2.

The three communities hard-hit by the HIV epidemic will receive $1.5 million each in federal funding to help reduce new infections and jump start the president’s plan to end the spread of the disease in the next decade, the Department of Health and Human Services said.

The communities, which serve an estimated 56,000 people living with HIV, will be pilot sites for the broader HIV plan, which is ...