NYC program to keep patients' HIV levels 'undetectable' faces Mayor Adams' budget cuts
HIV services, including a program that has been shown to help hard-to-reach patients reduce their viral loads, are among those targeted in city budget cuts.
Vasan said about 80% of the cuts came from reducing department overhead and spending on non-public-facing programs. Another $15 million was spread out among direct services to the public, although city officials did not specify which services were affected besides those related to HIV. Patients' HIV levels are considered undetectable — and therefore unable to be transmitted to others — when the amount of the virus in their blood is so low that blood tests can’t detect it,. Patients' HIV levels can typically become undetectable, or virally suppressed, within six months of them taking HIV medication daily, the CDC said. But HIV service providers say some patients struggle to adhere to treatment because of their living situations or behavioral health issues.
Vasan said HIV cuts would primarily target education and outreach program rather than services for diagnosis and treatment. But Cianciotto said the Undetectables program falls into the latter category.
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