LA Devotes Another $3M To Initiative Helping HIV-Positive People Who Aren’t Receiving Care
Supervisors touted the success of the program while arguing for the merits of its expansion.
KPCC:
LA Supervisors Expand Special HIV Program
The Los Angeles County Board of Supervisors is expanding a program that provides a wide array of services to low-income people with HIV. On Tuesday, the supervisors voted to spend up to $3 million to expand the program to about 1,300 patients at seven to nine high-volume HIV clinics. Last year, the initiative served 3,096 patients, according to the Department of Public Health’s Division of HIV and STD programs. (Plevin, 8/10)
In other health care news from across the state —
San Francisco Chronicle:
In New Fairfield, Tensions Over Teachers’ Health Insurance
School district officials have created an advisory committee to address concerns about its health insurance plan and are now recruiting members from other town boards and unions to participate. The move follows repeated requests by the town’s teachers’ union, the New Fairfield Education Association, to switch to the state’s health insurance plan. The union says the state plan would save its members and the district money. (Rigg, 8/10)
LA Daily News:
Dodgers To Observe Autism Awareness Night
The Los Angeles Dodgers will observe Autism Awareness Night at tonight’s game against the Philadelphia Phillies at Dodger Stadium, part of an effort throughout Major League Baseball to raise awareness about the group of complex developmental brain disorders. A public service announcement from Autism Speaks, the world’s leading autism science and advocacy organization, will be shown during pregame ceremonies. The Dodgers offered discounted group tickets for the game, with a portion of the proceeds from each ticket sold going to Autism Speaks. (8/9)
Mercury News:
South Bay: Pancreatic Cancer Walk Will Honor Couple's Mothers
Leah and Aaron Nichols are pioneering a 5K walk to raise money for pancreatic cancer research after the disease took the lives of both their mothers less than two years apart."I think for us, we're doing this for a lot of reasons," Aaron Nichols said. "One, because we want to keep the memory of our moms alive for our children. But we're also doing this because the incidence of pancreatic cancer is rising so much faster than other cancers, and it needs attention." The walk will be Oct. 1 at Shoreline Amphitheatre in Mountain View. (Myllenbeck, 8/10)
Fresno Bee:
Head Of California’s Medical Marijuana Bureau Visits Coalinga
The woman spearheading a statewide effort to regulate the booming but controversial medical marijuana industry is traveling across California to learn more about pot – and teach industry insiders about the state’s lawmaking process. Lori Ajax, five months into her position as the chief of the newly formed California Bureau of Medical Cannabis Regulation, visited Coalinga last month. Coalinga is the first city in the central San Joaquin Valley to embrace medical cannabis. The city legalized its manufacture and sold a vacant prison to a cannabis oil manufacturer in July. (Appleton, 8/10)