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Which metro Atlanta non-profits received HIV impact funds?

Kate Ogorzaly (left) touched one of AIDS Memorial Quilt displays as Ogorzally and Meg Bertram, then both graduate students majoring Global Health, stop for a closer look in 2011 at the AIDS Memorial Quilt at Emory University’s McDonough Field. Hyosub Shin, hshin@ajc.com
Kate Ogorzaly (left) touched one of AIDS Memorial Quilt displays as Ogorzally and Meg Bertram, then both graduate students majoring Global Health, stop for a closer look in 2011 at the AIDS Memorial Quilt at Emory University’s McDonough Field. Hyosub Shin, hshin@ajc.com
By Gracie Bonds Staples
Dec 2, 2017

On Friday, Gilead Sciences, Ford Foundation, Elton John AIDS Foundation, ViiV Healthcare, and Johnson & Johnson – leading funders of the domestic HIV response – launched a first-of-its-kind collaborative, The Southern HIV Impact Fund to stop the persistent and worsening impact of the epidemic on the region.

The Fund is making an initial investment of $2.65 million in support of 37 organizations in nine states, including Georgia, and has already mobilized an additional $150,000 in emergency support for people living with HIV in hurricane-impacted areas of the region, including Texas and Florida.

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Gracie Bonds Staples is a freelance writer for AJC.

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