 
July 16, 2009
Amarillo, Texas, Uses Federal Grant to Track HIV Needs
The Amarillo, Texas, city commission will use $51,636 from a Texas Department of State Health Service grant to set up an HIV surveillance program in the Texas Panhandle region, KFDA-TV reports.
According to the story, the program tracks the number of new HIV cases and computes whether proper services are being offered. The funding also supports investigating and reviewing HIV cases and then reporting them to the state health department. “That helps to put money back into our community,” says Kimberly Pride, the HIV prevention program manager of the J.O. Wyatt Clinic in Amarillo. “Every six years they reevaluate, and it helps to provide services to reach certain populations.”
According to the Amarillo Public Health Department, there are at least 30 new HIV cases in the region each year. Nurse Cindy Coffeit said that the Texas Panhandle Family Planning and Health Center had already confirmed six positive test results this year; half were heterosexuals in their early 20s, and half were homosexuals in their late 40s or early 50s.
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