Local group helping people with HIV would welcome more federal help

HIV remains a stubborn problem in Louisiana, and a local organization that helps people who are living with the disease said it welcomes President Trump’s goal of wiping out the illness.

“We in New Orleans remain the third-highest rate of new HIV infections as a city of anywhere else in the country. So, we remain on the front lines of the HIV epidemic,” said Dr. Jason Halperin, an infectious disease physician with CrescentCare, an organization which was formerly the NO/AIDS Task Force. Read More