The largest LGBTQ+ non-profit in Philadelphia is receiving hundreds of thousands of dollars to provide better healthcare, HIV testing and treatment.
Senator Bob Casey announced that the Mazzoni Center in Philadelphia will be receiving thousands of dollars from Washington on Thursday, June 6.“I’m grateful to be here during Pride Month to announce good news from Washington which doesn’t happen every week,” Casey said.
“We have given over 5,500 vaccines over the last year, we’ve drawn 7,200 sets of labs over the last year, and we also keep onsite expensive, long acting and life-saving HIV medication,” Dr. Stacey Trooskin, with the Mazzoni Center, said.As the largest LGBTQ+ serving medical center in the city, the center works in HIV testing, prevention and treatment daily to help people living with the virus become undetectable and untransmittable.
According to the most recent data from the Philadelphia Department of Public Health, as of 2022 there are 18,658 people living with HIV in the city. The majority of them are Black and brown men.
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