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<p>A pair of national HIV organizations are setting up a $1.15 million fund to help local HIV organizations in areas hit hardest by Hurricane Harvey.</p>
<p>The fund will also help those impacted by Hurricane Irma as it continues on its path toward the United States.</p>
<p>AIDS United and NMAC announced the creation of the fund on&nbsp;Thursday, during the opening plenary of the 21st annual U.S. Conference on AIDS, held in Washington, D.C.</p>
<p>Gilead Sciences, a major pharmaceutical company is donating $1 million to the fund.</p>
<p>&#8220;There is no greater emergency than the devastation of these powerful hurricanes,&#8221; Jesse Milan, Jr., the CEO of AIDS United, said in a statement. &#8220;We are thankful this rapid grantmaking process is in place and thrilled that Gilead is making available up to $1 million to support relief efforts for the HIV community.&#8221;</p>
<p>AIDS United will coordinate and distribute grants designated for local HIV organizations in Florida, Texas and Louisiana as part of the rapid response arm of its new Southern HIV Impact Fund.</p>
<p>NMAC will appoint a Hurricane Relief Advisory Panel, made up of local community leaders, to identify which organizations will receive the grants.</p>
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<p>In addition to Gilead&#8217;s contribution, AIDS United has allocated an additional $150,000 from the Southern HIV Impact Fund to help struggling organizations.</p>
<p>It also encouraged those organizations that need to quickly get back to work providing HIV prevention and treatment services to apply for grants.</p>
<p>&#8220;This is a really important announcement, because for people on the ground, in Houston, and potentially, wherever Irma&#8217;s going to come ashore, it&#8217;s really important to make sure that people in those areas who are living with HIV continue to get access to care,&#8221; says Chip Lewis, a spokesman for NMAC. &#8220;We heard a lot of stories from Houston that the damage there was so severe that a lot of people who were in care had their care disrupted. And that&#8217;s something we want to avoid when we&#8217;re talking about the care of people living with HIV.</p>
<p>&#8220;This money will go to local organizations on the ground in Texas, in Louisiana, in Florida, all the affected areas, who know how to get care to the people there locally,&#8221; Lewis adds. &#8220;We need to get this money into the areas affected as quickly as possible to minimize the disruption to people living with HIV.&#8221;</p>
<p>A return to normalcy for people living with HIV is particularly important in the Southern United States, which have higher rates of infection.</p>
<p>According to the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, more than half of new AIDS diagnoses and deaths occurred in the South. In 2015, Florida ranked first in the number of new diagnoses, Texas was third, and Louisiana was eleventh.</p>
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					if (lastCharIndex > 0) {
						msgToSpeak = new SpeechSynthesisUtterance(getJumpToText(inputText,lastCharIndex));
					}
					else {
						msgToSpeak = new SpeechSynthesisUtterance(inputText);
					}
					msgToSpeak.onstart = function(event) {
						document.getElementById('mySpeechButton').value = "Stop";
						document.getElementById('speechButtonResume').style.visibility = "collapse";
						document.getElementById('speechButtonPause').style.visibility = "visible";
						document.getElementById("speechSpeaker").src = "https://www.metroweekly.com/wp-content/metroweekly/speaker-on.gif";
						if (lastCharIndex > 0) {
							document.getElementById('speechButtonRestart').style.visibility = "visible";
						}
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					msgToSpeak.onend = function(event) {
						document.getElementById('mySpeechButton').value = "Speak";
						document.getElementById('speechButtonResume').style.visibility = "collapse";
						document.getElementById('speechButtonPause').style.visibility = "collapse";
						document.getElementById("speechSpeaker").src = "https://www.metroweekly.com/wp-content/metroweekly/speaker.gif";
						lastCharIndex += tempCharIndex;
						if (lastCharIndex > 0) {
							document.getElementById('speechButtonRestart').style.visibility = "visible";
						}
						// window.alert(lastCharIndex);
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					msgToSpeak.onpause = function(event) {
						document.getElementById('speechButtonResume').style.visibility = "visible";
						document.getElementById('speechButtonPause').style.visibility = "collapse";
						document.getElementById("speechSpeaker").src = "https://www.metroweekly.com/wp-content/metroweekly/speaker-pause.gif";
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					msgToSpeak.onresume = function(event) {
						document.getElementById('speechButtonResume').style.visibility = "collapse";
						document.getElementById('speechButtonPause').style.visibility = "visible";
						document.getElementById("speechSpeaker").src = "https://www.metroweekly.com/wp-content/metroweekly/speaker-on.gif";
					}
					msgToSpeak.onboundary = function(event) {
						tempCharIndex = event.charIndex;
						document.getElementById("speechPercentRead").innerHTML = getPercentRead();
					}
					window.onbeforeunload = function () {
						window.speechSynthesis.cancel();
					}
					window.onunload = function () {
						window.speechSynthesis.cancel();
					}
					if (Number(getMyCookie('speechRate')) > 0) {
						msgToSpeak.rate = getMyCookie('speechRate')/10;
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					}
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					window.speechSynthesis.speak(msgToSpeak);
				}
			}
			catch (err) {
				console.log("ERROR: " + err);
			}
		}
		function getPercentRead() {
			var percentRead=0;
			var output = "";
			percentRead = 100-(Math.round(((myText.length - (lastCharIndex + tempCharIndex)) / myText.length)*100));
			if (percentRead > 0) {
				output = percentRead  + '% ';
			}
			else {
				output = "";
			}
			return output;
		}
		function getJumpToText(myText,lastCharIndex) {
			var jumpToText = "";
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			return jumpToText;
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			output = output.replace(/(<\/h1>)/ig,". ");
			output = output.replace(/(<\/h2>)/ig,". ");
			output = output.replace(/(<\/h3>)/ig,". ");
			output = output.replace(/(<\/h4>)/ig,". ");
			output = output.replace(/(<\/h5>)/ig,". ");
			output = output.replace(/(<\/h6>)/ig,". ");
			output = output.replace(/(<\/li>)/ig,". ");
			output = output.replace(/(<\/td>)/ig,". ");
			output = output.replace(/(<\/div>)/ig,". ");
			output = output.replace(/(<\/ol>)/ig,". ");
			output = output.replace(/(<\/ul>)/ig,". ");
			output = output.replace(/(<br>)/ig,". ");
			output = output.replace(/(&amp;)/ig," and ");
			output = output.replace(/(<br \/>)/ig,". ");
			output = output.replace(/( Va\.)/g,"Virginia. ");
			output = output.replace(/( Md\.)/g,"Maryland. ");
			output = output.replace(/’/g ,"'"); // ANGLE APOS
			output = output.replace(/“/g ,"\""); // ANGLE OPEN QUOTE
			output = output.replace(/”/g ,"\""); // ANGLE CLOSE QUOTE
			output = output.replace(/D\.C\./g,"dee cee");
			output = output.replace(/(<table)/ig,"beginning of table: <table");
			output = output.replace(/(<tr)/ig,"new row: <tr");
			output = output.replace(/(<\/table>)/ig,"</table> end of table. ");
			output = output.replace(/\r/g ,"\n");
			output = output.replace(/(\n)+/g ,"\n");
			output = output.replace(/\n/g ," ");
			output = output.replace(/<div class=\"social-sharing-top\">/gi ,"<aside>");
			output = output.replace(/<!--social-sharing-top-->/gi ,"</aside>");
			output = output.replace(/<aside\b[^<]*(?:(?!<\/aside>)<[^<]*)*<\/aside>/gi,". ");
			output = output.replace(/<script\b[^<]*(?:(?!<\/script>)<[^<]*)*<\/script>/gi,". ");
			output = output.replace(/<style\b[^<]*(?:(?!<\/style>)<[^<]*)*<\/style>/gi,". ");
			output = output.replace(/<object\b[^<]*(?:(?!<\/object>)<[^<]*)*<\/object>/gi,". ");
			output = output.replace(/<embed\b[^<]*(?:(?!<\/embed>)<[^<]*)*<\/embed>/gi,". ");
			output = output.replace(/<option\b[^<]*(?:(?!<\/option)<[^<]*)*<\/option>/gi,". ");
			output = output.replace(/<form\b[^<]*(?:(?!<\/form)<[^<]*)*<\/form>/gi,". ");
			output = output.replace(/<select\b[^<]*(?:(?!<\/select>)<[^<]*)*<\/select>/gi,". ");
			output = output.replace(/<noscript\b[^<]*(?:(?!<\/noscript>)<[^<]*)*<\/noscript>/gi,". ");
			output = output.replace(/&nbsp;/g ," ");
			output = output.replace(/\[sic\]/g ," ");
			output = output.replace(/—/g ,", "); // EMDASH
			output = output.replace(/- -/g ,"--");
			output = output.replace(/(--)+/g ,"--");
			output = output.replace(/--/g ,", ");
			output = output.replace(/,+/g ,",");
			output = output.replace(/\t/g ," ");
			output = output.replace(/ +/g ," ");
			// GOLDSTAR FIX
			tempSearch = output.search(/<div class=\"eli_wrap goldstar-frontend\">/gi);
			if (tempSearch > 0) {
				output = output.substr(0,tempSearch);	
			}

			output = output.replace(/<div class=\"t402-prompt-iframe-container\">/,". Survey.<div>");
			output = output.replace(/<span class=\"twitter-byline\">/,". Tweet <span>");
			// strip code from here --  http://css-tricks.com/snippets/javascript/strip-html-tags-in-javascript/
			output = output.replace(/(<([^>]+)>)/ig,"");
			output = output.replace(/\[endparagraph\]/g ,". ");
			output = output.replace(/!/g ,". ");
			output = output.replace(/(\"\.)+/g ,".\" ");
			output = output.replace(/(\?\.)+/g ,"?");
			output = output.replace(/\.\.\./g,"dot dot dot");
			output = output.replace(/( \. )+/g ,". ");
			output = output.replace(/( \. )+/g ,". ");
			output = output.replace(/ ,/g ,", ");
			output = output.replace(/ +/g ," ");
			output = output.replace(/\.\./g ,".");
			output = output.replace(/\.+/g ,".");
			output = output.replace(/(\. )+/g ,". ");
			output = output.replace(/( \. )+/g ,". ");
			output = output.replace(/\.\"\./g ,".\""); // ANGLE CLOSE QUOTE

			return output;
		}
		jduyTTS.changeSpeechRate = function (valueSent) {
			setMyCookie('speechRate',valueSent,60);
			window.speechSynthesis.cancel();
			mySpeechRate = valueSent/10;
			document.getElementById('speechButtonRestart').innerHTML = "";
		}
	};
	jduyTTS();
</script>
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