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 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. 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 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 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 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. 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. 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. 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 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.

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 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 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 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. 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. 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 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 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 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 for 19 years and without this services those residents wouldn't be able to adhere to these messages. together our 3 programs house a hundred and 74 previously homeless individuals. i hope we can reconsidering funding the ryan white program

>> thank you very much. next speaker >> good afternoon. three years ago, i came to san francisco to die. i had $1,500 in my hand and i was going to pay for my cremation. had i not access to services in san francisco i wouldn't be here before you i wouldn't be an active member in the community. i have worked with the aids foundations and i have heard of the pain people had are effected with hiv. if we cut back on the services that gave me life it will take away from lives that are effected by hiv. i'm here to speak on behalf of

the latinos because of their inability to speak and be heard. if you cut back on the information or education any kit backs that are made on the steps of progress we'll have to regress back to the 1980s and 90s and start seeing people die again. i'm here to plead and ask for your help. without those services i would not be here before i and be of service to the community i'm a fighter for civil rights and i seriously hope you'll reconsider and take this is to the mayor

>> thank you very much. next speaker >> thank you. i moved to this area in 2011. july 13th of of 2012 i had a heart attack. when i moved here from tennessee my viral load was high. thanks to ward 86 and this project i hope they restore the cuts and i hope you ail will help us. thank you >> thank you. next speaker. >> i'm ann i'm a social

worker's. i wanted to bring some residents here today but they are not feeling well. i want to about our facility where we rely heavy on ryan whites fund to fund our y n a salaries without whom we couldn't stay licenses. we serve people with mental health issues and extremely complicated medical issues. i believe we save the city money because of our triage. we're able to observe medication and prevent a lot of infections

hospital shuns not to mention possibly institutional costs since we get a lot of folks from the la begin hospital. so i'm urging you all to backfill the cuts and also looking forward to advocate with mayor lee for restored funding. thank you >> thank you. next speaker. >> hi thank you for the opportunity to speak. i'm a program manager at the health aids project. we provided health services you ranging from acute orders and we keep our clients housed.

the demand for our services remains as high as every. we saw 1 hundred 1 hundred and 35 people had hiv. 1 thousand and 1 hundred 68 of those persons had low incomes. 1 hundred and 67 person for psy psych - people receive - we do

our best to connect people in order to prevent any lower level of existing. that means a hundred or more persons who are resulting in hospitalization and decline in overall educational functioning. we are here to ask for your help >> thank you very much. is there any additional public comment? okay seeing none may we close public comment? and i want to thank everyone who came out today and also the public health and the community based toeshgsz

was very useful presentation at the beginning. we're earlier in our budget and we'll continue to work and advocate to do everything we can to backfill the anticipated federal cuts. so mr. chairman if there are no additional comments? >> just some brief condemns i want to thank you for your comments that we put the hiv context of our entire safety nets. san francisco is known as a compassionate city and we've been strong in taking care of the hiv community and i'm

committed to backfill the cut. and the choices we make as a city i've been talking about the city in terms of how we support the america's cup and it con trains our ability to look at our safety net but i want to make sure we're moving in the side to support our hiv services. i think what we saw we've been making a strong commitment over the years especially the big dip in 2006, 2345078 we were able to backfill the cuts. thank you for bringing this forward and i'll make sure that jul july 1st, we'll look at