Two Connecticut cities have received more than $2 million of supplemental Ryan White federal AIDS funding in order to restore some HIV/AIDS serviced cut earlier this year, though some legislators are saying it is not enough. Neither Hartford nor New Haven received more than about half of their expected allocations when federal funding levels were first announced last March.
"I'm HIV positive and diabetic (as well as have high cholesterol) and some of my meds specify taking them with 'high fat foods' which I have to do twice a day. I've eaten as healthy as possible, but when it comes to high fat foods, I am in a quandary...about what to eat sometimes..."