Ryan White funding delays ’resolved’ for AIDS groups

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A delay in the disbursement of federal Ryan White AIDS funds earlier this year that forced some community-based groups to reduce their services to people with HIV and AIDS appears to be resolved, according to officials with Baltimore and D.C. groups hit hard by the funding delays.

Tom Bonderenko, executive director of Moveable Feast, a group that provides meals for homebound people with HIV/AIDS in the Baltimore area, said his group hopes to resume full services to about 370 of its 1,200 clients that faced meal delivery cutbacks due to the funding delays.

“On this past Friday we did receive a reimbursement from the Baltimore City Health Department for some of our outstanding reimbursable funds,” he said on Wednesday. “Although we are still in a decrease service scenario for our clients, that will be adjusted in the next few weeks.”

Moveable Feast was among hundreds of community-based AIDS service organizations throughout the country adversely affected by federal AIDS funding delays initially caused by Congress taking far longer than usual to approve the federal budget for fiscal year 2011.

http://www.washingtonblade.com/2011/09/07/ryan-white-funding-delays%c2%a0resolved-for-aids-groups/