Three HIV Groups Merge in SF Without Community Debate

From The Petrelis Files....

The dominant HIV service provider in the San Francisco Bay Area, the SF AIDS Foundation, just got a bit bigger today. In a news release on the foundation's web site, they herald merging with two smaller groups, Magnet, an HIV/STD testing and treatment facility in the Castro neighborhood, and the Stonewall Project, which is dedicated to helping gay men addicted to meth.

It may not be a bad thing at all to have smaller service providers gobbled up by the behemoth SF AIDS Foundation, which in recent years was seen less and less as providing much in terms of gay-specific programs, but there is one very troubling aspect to this merger - absolutely no community-wide discussion before it happens.

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