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next speaker >> hello, i'm ms. brown i'm 22 years diagnosed with hiv. and for each time the kits came. i'm also 68 years old so i'm doubly impacted with the budget cuts and the third thing is that everything is geared toward l l.b. community and what does sexual it have to do with that. thank you >> thank you. next speaker. >> thank you supervisors for this important opportunity
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my tree has provided hospice and legalization to low income advanced aids since 1997 our mission so to make sure that no one has to die alone. we serve 15 thousand residents and all those residents require 24 hour care. we've had a waiting list of applicants as a testament to our community we've also given priority to those with the at least income. often people come to us with no medical care and we stabilize
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those who can be stabilized and we help those with end of life to have dignity and with as little pain as possible. since providing 24 hour nursing care in an operation of this scale is expensive we've been forces to rouse our administrator costs but if we have to turn more deserveable patients away that would force a lot more people in desire need to san francisco general and i expect their costing the citizens of the san francisco a lot more then by private giving and volunteers.
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i do have several residents who have come to speak and their medically challenged. could i bring them forward? >> good afternoon i'm tim. i've been a residence for the last two months. the care and services provided by them is very incredible to someone who has hiv. i say the funding shouldn't be cut because it's very, very critical in the cycle of recovery that all hiv and aids patients go through. i really encourage you to reconsider before you cut. i need there are a lot of issues i need to consider but do
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consider this. thank you >> hi. thank you for hearing me, i'm a required school teacher i have aids and cancer. i was looking the prospective with no cooking facility as a plays i was living while i was go through chemotherapy. now all the worry i had about my living space and being taken care of and any medical emergency hispanics to me has been lifted from my shoufldz so i can concentrate on getting
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rest in a place that's clean and people are very kind. i hope you people will keep the funding open for my treatment it's an incredible place. thank you >> hi i'm seth. i'm 59 years old i've would here for over 319 years i've seen the beginning of hiv aids. i tested positive in 1987. my partner and i were able to
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survive and i've now been with a partner for 18 and a half years. the changes that have occurred in the last six months i became very, very much hiv problematic on many areas including my kidneys etc. i realize with my loss of balance and my not been able to control myself i can't stay-at-home. my partner would have to leave work and take care of me day and night or i would wind up at a general hospital or be fortunate enough to know two words in the last few years.
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their words and my tree. i've been at my tree for the last two years and anyone who was the fortunate to go to my tree will have a full, full exciting life ahead of them. >> thank you very much. next speaker >> god bless my tree. hi i'm eddy. i'm the physician i direct the woman's program. i'm here to express one reason for the board of supervisors and for the mayor to back hill cuts for aids services in the city. restoring those cuts is a very smart financial reason. 2 hundred and 13 thousands of
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ryan white money funds a lot of people at the client. this is a gateway to all kinds of serves. most of those are african-american and latino. because of this gateway these people can see the best physicians and if they get real sick i can put them into the clinics and this client provides a lot of funds. the general medicine client can't provided the gateway into ucf services. they have no medication, no programs to help woman to professor from violence.
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if our program closes the gateway most of those woman and would be out of care or at san francisco general costing more money. we need our support to sustain the basic foundation of the cities services. because it's smart, cost saving financial investment into the health care of our community. >> thank you very much. next speaker >> hi i'm adrian and i came base i'm at usc for example i get treatment also a lot of community woman get treatment there and the cuts would mean they'd have no mental health care and no nutritional health care and a lot of our community
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depended on those services and without that they wouldn't go for medical care because everything is done under one appointment. i'm hopeful that you wouldn't cut those services. >> thank you very much. next speaker and thank you for the opportunity to speak. i'm katie i'm a psych health worker. we work closely with the medical provides at the hiv program and we're the case managers with the catholic charities. we work together with women who have hiv.
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for the past decade we've been providing the service bringing mental health and health into a health care setting. we work with women who are predominately low income. as evidenced by the improved qualities of our patients life. they find long term housing they take their medication and they learn to manage their p tcs symptoms without abuseing drugs or alcohol. we try to improve the social
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activities for our patients. thank you thank you very much. next speaker >> good afternoon i'm a client of this program. most of the support volunteers for the and a half years before ashley i was isolated and afraid but since this program i have floertd. i have come back and at times ashley was the only person in my life i could trust. and salesmen's she's the only person to come to my hospitalized she's helped me a
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lot of. thank you >> mr. roy. >> good afternoon supervisors my name is trio i'm the executive director at the program. it's a non-profit for hiv and cancer. i'll keep my remarks brief. we serve over 16 hundred people who are hiv positive. there's an expression that i hope sums things up. and that idea is what we call the difference between zero and one. and that applies to a lot of our clients but it is applying to all of us having the difference of one person by your side supporting i or having no one. and that difference is the best
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difference of all. so all the organizations we represent that difference in the lives of the hiv positive clients we serve and that's who's on behalf of we are speaking for today. thank you very much >> thank you. next speaker. >> good afternoon. i'm convene executive director of project open-end. as you know project open hand has delivered over 16 hundred meals to people living in the bay area with hiv and aids. we issued a report showing the linkage of people with hiv who have access to healthy food do much better than those who don't have food.
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was it would mean if those cuts into in effect if you're clients do without more food or without medication. >> i'm greg i'm a volunteer and a client at project open hand which provides food and medication for hiv people. they provided an incredible benefit to me. i shop once a week to project open hand center to stretch my money. they provided me with staples to help me with food.
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i volunteer at project open hand and help to among the meals. those people are most important because they don't have a voice. clients like me depend upon the meals. clients who are also suffering from hiv and aids will suffer more because of malnourish. project open hands prevents me from going hungry. i urge you to provide the necessary funding so the clients are not turned away from project open hand >> thank you very much. next speaker >> good afternoon supervisor wiener thank you for having this hearing.
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i sit on the executive boards of the ceo. please, please restore the cuts because the cuts will help especially an african-american community i know that working with the ceo san francisco program lawful african-american people can come in there and get the stuff they need. in 1990 i got diagnosed with full blown aids. by having the services available to me i am living longer. i want those people who are coming behind me to have a good
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life. i've utilized all those services. i've been in san francisco i've i'm an advocate for african-american males. this service has allowed me a quality of life it would be a disserve to those who are coming behind me. i'm 62 i've gotten to imagine a grass fully and also i feel that looking at tv and stuff there's not a lot of attorneys about hiv awareness and stuff but your african-american young men have flicked with this disease because they're not be sure that hiv isday.
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when i was first diagnosed my environmental load was at a - i'm now at 850 and my environmental load is at 71. so thank you. >> thank you very much next
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speaker. >> good afternoon i'm here on behalf of we feelness center. for years we have been a anchor in the community not only providing wrap around services but also providing much needed hiv health education services and linkages to general care. in the past two years the tenderloin center have gotten 16 clients to healthy conditions. i've contributed 1/3rd of our
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clients come from the tenderloin with the highest community of environmental load 20 percent are currently living with hiv. i've contributed the - i believe in the philosophy of about creating our system designed to educate we've been able to lesson the hiv - we're serving some of san francisco most vulnerable people with the greatest needs. people have traveled across the state to get those services. our community are investing in the health and we ask that you
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continue to invest in their health as well >> thank you. next speaker >> my name is dave and i'm a case client. i've been living with hiv since 1984 living with this has been tragic for me. i lost my job because i couldn't get out of my place. but i became homeless. two years ago, i got all the help you neat mental health care, food and the community. it was about my medical attention that allowed me to move forward.
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because i had - too years ago later my viral load is undid he technically. i'm thinking about trying to doing all that by myself is like a 5 hundred pound weight prergz down on me. if i don't get those services i'm in trouble. 60 percent of my friends including me have a greater success and my story is not over i've still got a lot of things to do.
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please continue to invest in our health too. thank you >> thank you very much. next speaker >> i'm juan and i've been living with hiv since 2003. i was gainfully employed before this. i started to use drugs and eventually i lost my jobs. then 2007 i find a case manager and find a social community. but because of my drug use i - my doctor said that i needed to be treated for my drug addiction. so in 2011 things got worse i
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asked my staff manager to help me going get into rehab. i was able to get on hiv medication and i've been clean for over two years and my t cell counts have increased dramatically. san francisco's safety net saved me when everyone gave up on me. what will happen to all others in san francisco if this safety net is taken away. we're all 87 today to take responsibility for our health please invest in us. thank you very much >> thank you for your consideration and support. i'm bill, i serve as the
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director of the aids panel. for years we've provided help for people with aids we help people live and die with dignity. we're a small agency we have 7 staff attorneys but we have over seven hundred attorneys who serve on our panel. the investment that the city makes an incredible amount of services. there are many competing needs and we need our support. thank you >> thank you very much. next speaker. >> thank you for having this opportunity for being here
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today. i'm here to talk about the programs that catholic charity ceo provided for the hiv community. we have two communities. peter and lee lane are people who care for the services. the ryan white funding provides salaries for our certified nursing. which means we wouldn't be able to provide mid management and 24 hour new year's and escorts to appointments. we've got residents who have been alive