AIDS services groups lose patient meals program funding

Dars Wood, head cook, serves up catfish for hungry HIV-positive clients at the Resource Center of Dallas.

When he was diagnosed with HIV in 1988, doctors gave Iyron Butler six years to live. Nineteen years later, Butler is still going strong, and he gives much of the credit to the Resource Center of Dallas’ hot lunch program.

Due to changes in federal guidelines, Dallas County Health and Human Services recently informed the Resource Center and AIN that it won’t fund the programs after February.read more