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As Midwest cities like Indianapolis struggle with an HIV epidemic, federal support is being curtailed.

The White House budget proposal would roll back next year's federal HIV prevention funding to levels not seen since around 1987.

The Indianapolis Department of Metropolitan Development recently announced the opening of two applications for $11 million in grant funding from the Department of Housing and Urban Development.

Work on a new home for the Damien Center is on track. The HIV service provider in Indianapolis recently announced it closed on three agreements with local partners to provide $27.7 million in federal New Market Tax Credits for the building.

Indiana’s oldest and largest AIDS/HIV service organization has put its support behind an effort to update the state’s H-I-V laws.