Indiana Shut Down Its Rural Planned Parenthood Clinics And Got An HIV Outbreak

[EastCoastLiberal]

PP offers STD testing and birth contraception. Wouldn't you rather a deadly disease be diagnosed and stopped rather than have that person continue to spread it. You all really are thinking like Liberians. They never thought Ebola would get so out of hand, either

Really AIDS is like Ebola huh?

Are you suggesting we should round up all the people infected with AIDS and put them under Quarantine to stop the spread of this deadly virus?
Perhaps we should put all known drug offenders and high-risk individuals in quarantine for the 6 month incubation period after every known offense.

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When you actually ask an intelligent question I will answer it.

 

[BlackSand]

When you actually ask an intelligent question I will answer it.

I responded to your post ... If there is any lack of intelligence ... It would be contained within your assertions in the first place because you made the comparison, not me.
I will take it that you do not want to defend your comments ... And I am not even going to assume why.

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[koshergrl]

LOL! So exactly how does closing down some Planned Parenthood clinics cause an outbreak of HIV among drug users? The article's attempt to link the two is dubious.

And your solution is to spend millions of tax dollars because drug users don't have enough common sense to use clean needles.

Let people suffer the consequences of their own bad choices and stop using tax dollars to enable them to continue their immoral conduct. Maybe if they saw some fellow users die, they might take steps to change their conduct.

PP offers STD testing and birth contraception. Wouldn't you rather a deadly disease be diagnosed and stopped rather than have that person continue to spread it. You all really are thinking like Liberians. They never thought Ebola would get so out of hand, either

So do county clinics.

PP clinics operate exclusively to provide abortion. The rest is just cover, and typically, they don't even do it. They just say they do.

"Planned Parenthood's “billing policies routinely instructed clinic staff to enter billing codes for certain services, regardless of whether patients' charts recorded that such service was actually provided.”
Planned Parenthood Pays Hefty Settlement in Texas Medicaid Fraud Case

 

[Iceweasel]

The clinic was supposed to prevent homosexual perverts from having careless sex? They have no responsibility on what they do with their own dicks? It doesn't get any stupider than that.

 

[Moonglow]

Scott County, Indiana, the center of an exploding HIV outbreak, has been without an HIV testing center since early 2013, when the sole provider -- a Planned Parenthood clinic -- was forced to close its doors. The clinic did not offer abortion services.

The Scott County clinic and four other Planned Parenthood facilities in the state, all of which provided HIV testing and information, have shuttered since 2011, in large part due to funding cuts to the state's public health infrastructure. Those cuts came amid a national and local political campaign to demonize the health care provider. Now, the state is scrambling to erect pop-up clinics to combat an unprecedented HIV epidemic caused by intravenous drug use.

The fact that Scott County was "without a testing facility until a few weeks ago is a glaring example of the kind of public health crisis that results when prevention and testing are left unfunded," said Patti Stauffer, Planned Parenthood of Indiana and Kentucky's vice president for public policy.

Indiana's GOP-led state legislature was one of the first to declare war against Planned Parenthood in 2011, when it passed a bill that defunded the family planning providerbecause some of its clinics offer abortion services. A federal judge later blocked that law from going into effect, but the state has continued to slash various sources of funding to Planned Parenthood at a time when the cost of operating a medical facility continues to rise.

In 2005, Planned Parenthood of Indiana received a total of $3.3 million in funding from government contracts and grants. By 2014, that funding had dropped to $1.9 million. Five of Planned Parenthood’s smaller clinics in the state -- the health centers in Scottsburg, Madison, Richmond, Bedford and Warsaw -- were unable to keep up with the growing technology costs that were necessary to remain competitive as a medical provider. All five clinics that were forced to close had offered HIV testing. None had offered abortions.

Even without five of its clinics, Planned Parenthood's HIV testing in Indiana has been increasing each year. Overall, the provider's 25 remaining clinics in Kentucky and Indiana gave more than 8,000 HIV tests in 2014, about 1,000 more than the previous year. And the numbers would certainly be higher if the five shuttered clinics in Indiana had been able to continue to operate.

Stauffer said if the Planned Parenthood facilities in Scottsburg and Madison, both in southwest rural Indiana, had received the funding they needed to stay open, they could have been a vital resource in preventing the current HIV outbreak.

"We applaud the state’s public health officials in acting to address this epidemic, but we also encourage our legislators to adequately fund public health efforts to protect all Hoosiers from future health crises from HIV and other devastating outcomes," said Stauffer.

Indiana Gov. Mike Pence (R) has warned that the HIV outbreak amounts to an epidemic. Last week, he broke with previous policy to create a temporary needle-exchange program to stem the tide. His office did not immediately respond to a request for comment.


And there you have it....the unintended but easily forecastable problem with closing down Planned Parenthood because of the name instead of the services provided.

HIV is probably the most preventable disease we've ever had. It is almost exclusively spread by behavior that people KNOW is wrong. We wouldn't need testing centers if people would simply do the right thing.

Tell that to an addict and see where it gets ya....

 

[Where_r_my_Keys]

"Indiana Shut Down Its Rural Planned Parenthood Clinics And Got An HIV Outbreak"


ROFLMNAO!

That's about as pitiful as it gets... .

 

[hipeter924]

Scott County, Indiana, the center of an exploding HIV outbreak, has been without an HIV testing center since early 2013, when the sole provider -- a Planned Parenthood clinic -- was forced to close its doors. The clinic did not offer abortion services.

The Scott County clinic and four other Planned Parenthood facilities in the state, all of which provided HIV testing and information, have shuttered since 2011, in large part due to funding cuts to the state's public health infrastructure. Those cuts came amid a national and local political campaign to demonize the health care provider. Now, the state is scrambling to erect pop-up clinics to combat an unprecedented HIV epidemic caused by intravenous drug use.

The fact that Scott County was "without a testing facility until a few weeks ago is a glaring example of the kind of public health crisis that results when prevention and testing are left unfunded," said Patti Stauffer, Planned Parenthood of Indiana and Kentucky's vice president for public policy.

Indiana's GOP-led state legislature was one of the first to declare war against Planned Parenthood in 2011, when it passed a bill that defunded the family planning providerbecause some of its clinics offer abortion services. A federal judge later blocked that law from going into effect, but the state has continued to slash various sources of funding to Planned Parenthood at a time when the cost of operating a medical facility continues to rise.

In 2005, Planned Parenthood of Indiana received a total of $3.3 million in funding from government contracts and grants. By 2014, that funding had dropped to $1.9 million. Five of Planned Parenthood’s smaller clinics in the state -- the health centers in Scottsburg, Madison, Richmond, Bedford and Warsaw -- were unable to keep up with the growing technology costs that were necessary to remain competitive as a medical provider. All five clinics that were forced to close had offered HIV testing. None had offered abortions.

Even without five of its clinics, Planned Parenthood's HIV testing in Indiana has been increasing each year. Overall, the provider's 25 remaining clinics in Kentucky and Indiana gave more than 8,000 HIV tests in 2014, about 1,000 more than the previous year. And the numbers would certainly be higher if the five shuttered clinics in Indiana had been able to continue to operate.

Stauffer said if the Planned Parenthood facilities in Scottsburg and Madison, both in southwest rural Indiana, had received the funding they needed to stay open, they could have been a vital resource in preventing the current HIV outbreak.

"We applaud the state’s public health officials in acting to address this epidemic, but we also encourage our legislators to adequately fund public health efforts to protect all Hoosiers from future health crises from HIV and other devastating outcomes," said Stauffer.

Indiana Gov. Mike Pence (R) has warned that the HIV outbreak amounts to an epidemic. Last week, he broke with previous policy to create a temporary needle-exchange program to stem the tide. His office did not immediately respond to a request for comment.


And there you have it....the unintended but easily forecastable problem with closing down Planned Parenthood because of the name instead of the services provided.

HIV is probably the most preventable disease we've ever had. It is almost exclusively spread by behavior that people KNOW is wrong. We wouldn't need testing centers if people would simply do the right thing.

You realize that most people globally with Hiv/Aids are heterosexual right? So being gay or not doesn't reduce your risk of getting it.

 

[SassyIrishLass]

Scott County, Indiana, the center of an exploding HIV outbreak, has been without an HIV testing center since early 2013, when the sole provider -- a Planned Parenthood clinic -- was forced to close its doors. The clinic did not offer abortion services.

The Scott County clinic and four other Planned Parenthood facilities in the state, all of which provided HIV testing and information, have shuttered since 2011, in large part due to funding cuts to the state's public health infrastructure. Those cuts came amid a national and local political campaign to demonize the health care provider. Now, the state is scrambling to erect pop-up clinics to combat an unprecedented HIV epidemic caused by intravenous drug use.

The fact that Scott County was "without a testing facility until a few weeks ago is a glaring example of the kind of public health crisis that results when prevention and testing are left unfunded," said Patti Stauffer, Planned Parenthood of Indiana and Kentucky's vice president for public policy.

Indiana's GOP-led state legislature was one of the first to declare war against Planned Parenthood in 2011, when it passed a bill that defunded the family planning providerbecause some of its clinics offer abortion services. A federal judge later blocked that law from going into effect, but the state has continued to slash various sources of funding to Planned Parenthood at a time when the cost of operating a medical facility continues to rise.

In 2005, Planned Parenthood of Indiana received a total of $3.3 million in funding from government contracts and grants. By 2014, that funding had dropped to $1.9 million. Five of Planned Parenthood’s smaller clinics in the state -- the health centers in Scottsburg, Madison, Richmond, Bedford and Warsaw -- were unable to keep up with the growing technology costs that were necessary to remain competitive as a medical provider. All five clinics that were forced to close had offered HIV testing. None had offered abortions.

Even without five of its clinics, Planned Parenthood's HIV testing in Indiana has been increasing each year. Overall, the provider's 25 remaining clinics in Kentucky and Indiana gave more than 8,000 HIV tests in 2014, about 1,000 more than the previous year. And the numbers would certainly be higher if the five shuttered clinics in Indiana had been able to continue to operate.

Stauffer said if the Planned Parenthood facilities in Scottsburg and Madison, both in southwest rural Indiana, had received the funding they needed to stay open, they could have been a vital resource in preventing the current HIV outbreak.

"We applaud the state’s public health officials in acting to address this epidemic, but we also encourage our legislators to adequately fund public health efforts to protect all Hoosiers from future health crises from HIV and other devastating outcomes," said Stauffer.

Indiana Gov. Mike Pence (R) has warned that the HIV outbreak amounts to an epidemic. Last week, he broke with previous policy to create a temporary needle-exchange program to stem the tide. His office did not immediately respond to a request for comment.


And there you have it....the unintended but easily forecastable problem with closing down Planned Parenthood because of the name instead of the services provided.

HIV is probably the most preventable disease we've ever had. It is almost exclusively spread by behavior that people KNOW is wrong. We wouldn't need testing centers if people would simply do the right thing.

You realize that most people globally with Hiv/Aids are heterosexual right? So being gay or not doesn't reduce your risk of getting it.

Which faction is the only one rising in the United States? Hint: It's not heterosexuals

 

[hipeter924]

Scott County, Indiana, the center of an exploding HIV outbreak, has been without an HIV testing center since early 2013, when the sole provider -- a Planned Parenthood clinic -- was forced to close its doors. The clinic did not offer abortion services.

The Scott County clinic and four other Planned Parenthood facilities in the state, all of which provided HIV testing and information, have shuttered since 2011, in large part due to funding cuts to the state's public health infrastructure. Those cuts came amid a national and local political campaign to demonize the health care provider. Now, the state is scrambling to erect pop-up clinics to combat an unprecedented HIV epidemic caused by intravenous drug use.

The fact that Scott County was "without a testing facility until a few weeks ago is a glaring example of the kind of public health crisis that results when prevention and testing are left unfunded," said Patti Stauffer, Planned Parenthood of Indiana and Kentucky's vice president for public policy.

Indiana's GOP-led state legislature was one of the first to declare war against Planned Parenthood in 2011, when it passed a bill that defunded the family planning providerbecause some of its clinics offer abortion services. A federal judge later blocked that law from going into effect, but the state has continued to slash various sources of funding to Planned Parenthood at a time when the cost of operating a medical facility continues to rise.

In 2005, Planned Parenthood of Indiana received a total of $3.3 million in funding from government contracts and grants. By 2014, that funding had dropped to $1.9 million. Five of Planned Parenthood’s smaller clinics in the state -- the health centers in Scottsburg, Madison, Richmond, Bedford and Warsaw -- were unable to keep up with the growing technology costs that were necessary to remain competitive as a medical provider. All five clinics that were forced to close had offered HIV testing. None had offered abortions.

Even without five of its clinics, Planned Parenthood's HIV testing in Indiana has been increasing each year. Overall, the provider's 25 remaining clinics in Kentucky and Indiana gave more than 8,000 HIV tests in 2014, about 1,000 more than the previous year. And the numbers would certainly be higher if the five shuttered clinics in Indiana had been able to continue to operate.

Stauffer said if the Planned Parenthood facilities in Scottsburg and Madison, both in southwest rural Indiana, had received the funding they needed to stay open, they could have been a vital resource in preventing the current HIV outbreak.

"We applaud the state’s public health officials in acting to address this epidemic, but we also encourage our legislators to adequately fund public health efforts to protect all Hoosiers from future health crises from HIV and other devastating outcomes," said Stauffer.

Indiana Gov. Mike Pence (R) has warned that the HIV outbreak amounts to an epidemic. Last week, he broke with previous policy to create a temporary needle-exchange program to stem the tide. His office did not immediately respond to a request for comment.


And there you have it....the unintended but easily forecastable problem with closing down Planned Parenthood because of the name instead of the services provided.

HIV is probably the most preventable disease we've ever had. It is almost exclusively spread by behavior that people KNOW is wrong. We wouldn't need testing centers if people would simply do the right thing.

You realize that most people globally with Hiv/Aids are heterosexual right? So being gay or not doesn't reduce your risk of getting it.

Which faction is the only one rising in the United States? Hint: It's not heterosexuals

Gay obviously in the US, though heterosexuals still get it at enough of a rate, to discount the notion that not having gay sex would get rid of or mitigate Hiv/Aids.

 

[SassyIrishLass]

Scott County, Indiana, the center of an exploding HIV outbreak, has been without an HIV testing center since early 2013, when the sole provider -- a Planned Parenthood clinic -- was forced to close its doors. The clinic did not offer abortion services.

The Scott County clinic and four other Planned Parenthood facilities in the state, all of which provided HIV testing and information, have shuttered since 2011, in large part due to funding cuts to the state's public health infrastructure. Those cuts came amid a national and local political campaign to demonize the health care provider. Now, the state is scrambling to erect pop-up clinics to combat an unprecedented HIV epidemic caused by intravenous drug use.

The fact that Scott County was "without a testing facility until a few weeks ago is a glaring example of the kind of public health crisis that results when prevention and testing are left unfunded," said Patti Stauffer, Planned Parenthood of Indiana and Kentucky's vice president for public policy.

Indiana's GOP-led state legislature was one of the first to declare war against Planned Parenthood in 2011, when it passed a bill that defunded the family planning providerbecause some of its clinics offer abortion services. A federal judge later blocked that law from going into effect, but the state has continued to slash various sources of funding to Planned Parenthood at a time when the cost of operating a medical facility continues to rise.

In 2005, Planned Parenthood of Indiana received a total of $3.3 million in funding from government contracts and grants. By 2014, that funding had dropped to $1.9 million. Five of Planned Parenthood’s smaller clinics in the state -- the health centers in Scottsburg, Madison, Richmond, Bedford and Warsaw -- were unable to keep up with the growing technology costs that were necessary to remain competitive as a medical provider. All five clinics that were forced to close had offered HIV testing. None had offered abortions.

Even without five of its clinics, Planned Parenthood's HIV testing in Indiana has been increasing each year. Overall, the provider's 25 remaining clinics in Kentucky and Indiana gave more than 8,000 HIV tests in 2014, about 1,000 more than the previous year. And the numbers would certainly be higher if the five shuttered clinics in Indiana had been able to continue to operate.

Stauffer said if the Planned Parenthood facilities in Scottsburg and Madison, both in southwest rural Indiana, had received the funding they needed to stay open, they could have been a vital resource in preventing the current HIV outbreak.

"We applaud the state’s public health officials in acting to address this epidemic, but we also encourage our legislators to adequately fund public health efforts to protect all Hoosiers from future health crises from HIV and other devastating outcomes," said Stauffer.

Indiana Gov. Mike Pence (R) has warned that the HIV outbreak amounts to an epidemic. Last week, he broke with previous policy to create a temporary needle-exchange program to stem the tide. His office did not immediately respond to a request for comment.


And there you have it....the unintended but easily forecastable problem with closing down Planned Parenthood because of the name instead of the services provided.

HIV is probably the most preventable disease we've ever had. It is almost exclusively spread by behavior that people KNOW is wrong. We wouldn't need testing centers if people would simply do the right thing.

You realize that most people globally with Hiv/Aids are heterosexual right? So being gay or not doesn't reduce your risk of getting it.

Which faction is the only one rising in the United States? Hint: It's not heterosexuals

Gay obviously in the US, though heterosexuals still get it at enough of a rate, to discount the notion that not having gay sex would get rid of or mitigate Hiv/Aids.

The rate is dropping in the heterosexual arena. Why is it increasing in the homosexuals?

 

[NoTeaPartyPleez]

LOL! So exactly how does closing down some Planned Parenthood clinics cause an outbreak of HIV among drug users? The article's attempt to link the two is dubious.

And your solution is to spend millions of tax dollars because drug users don't have enough common sense to use clean needles.

Let people suffer the consequences of their own bad choices and stop using tax dollars to enable them to continue their immoral conduct. Maybe if they saw some fellow users die, they might take steps to change their conduct.

PP offers STD testing and birth contraception. Wouldn't you rather a deadly disease be diagnosed and stopped rather than have that person continue to spread it. You all really are thinking like Liberians. They never thought Ebola would get so out of hand, either

So do county clinics.

PP clinics operate exclusively to provide abortion. The rest is just cover, and typically, they don't even do it. They just say they do.

"Planned Parenthood's “billing policies routinely instructed clinic staff to enter billing codes for certain services, regardless of whether patients' charts recorded that such service was actually provided.”
Planned Parenthood Pays Hefty Settlement in Texas Medicaid Fraud Case

Oh the irony. Thanks for that link, KosherTwit. Whenever you idiots post to a blog I go for a reputable news agency to report same.

Planned Parenthood Settles in Fraud Case
Planned Parenthood Settles in Fraud Case - WSJ
""""Ms. Reynolds claimed that Planned Parenthood billed Medicaid and other government programs for services that were not provided or that were not needed by patients, including birth-control counseling and testing for sexually transmitted diseases."""

Indiana, you GOT what you deserved.

This wraps around nicely to the O/P. BTW, private docs do this all the time. They want to screen their patient and rule out other causes for a problem, but the shitty insurance companies don't want to pay for tests and screenings. So they make shit up.

 

[deltex1]

Scott County, Indiana, the center of an exploding HIV outbreak, has been without an HIV testing center since early 2013, when the sole provider -- a Planned Parenthood clinic -- was forced to close its doors. The clinic did not offer abortion services.

The Scott County clinic and four other Planned Parenthood facilities in the state, all of which provided HIV testing and information, have shuttered since 2011, in large part due to funding cuts to the state's public health infrastructure. Those cuts came amid a national and local political campaign to demonize the health care provider. Now, the state is scrambling to erect pop-up clinics to combat an unprecedented HIV epidemic caused by intravenous drug use.

The fact that Scott County was "without a testing facility until a few weeks ago is a glaring example of the kind of public health crisis that results when prevention and testing are left unfunded," said Patti Stauffer, Planned Parenthood of Indiana and Kentucky's vice president for public policy.

Indiana's GOP-led state legislature was one of the first to declare war against Planned Parenthood in 2011, when it passed a bill that defunded the family planning providerbecause some of its clinics offer abortion services. A federal judge later blocked that law from going into effect, but the state has continued to slash various sources of funding to Planned Parenthood at a time when the cost of operating a medical facility continues to rise.

In 2005, Planned Parenthood of Indiana received a total of $3.3 million in funding from government contracts and grants. By 2014, that funding had dropped to $1.9 million. Five of Planned Parenthood’s smaller clinics in the state -- the health centers in Scottsburg, Madison, Richmond, Bedford and Warsaw -- were unable to keep up with the growing technology costs that were necessary to remain competitive as a medical provider. All five clinics that were forced to close had offered HIV testing. None had offered abortions.

Even without five of its clinics, Planned Parenthood's HIV testing in Indiana has been increasing each year. Overall, the provider's 25 remaining clinics in Kentucky and Indiana gave more than 8,000 HIV tests in 2014, about 1,000 more than the previous year. And the numbers would certainly be higher if the five shuttered clinics in Indiana had been able to continue to operate.

Stauffer said if the Planned Parenthood facilities in Scottsburg and Madison, both in southwest rural Indiana, had received the funding they needed to stay open, they could have been a vital resource in preventing the current HIV outbreak.

"We applaud the state’s public health officials in acting to address this epidemic, but we also encourage our legislators to adequately fund public health efforts to protect all Hoosiers from future health crises from HIV and other devastating outcomes," said Stauffer.

Indiana Gov. Mike Pence (R) has warned that the HIV outbreak amounts to an epidemic. Last week, he broke with previous policy to create a temporary needle-exchange program to stem the tide. His office did not immediately respond to a request for comment.


And there you have it....the unintended but easily forecastable problem with closing down Planned Parenthood because of the name instead of the services provided.

Too many Indians...not enuf monkeys.

 

[ClosedCaption]

LOL! So exactly how does closing down some Planned Parenthood clinics cause an outbreak of HIV among drug users? T.

I dont know, who said closing them CAUSED HIV in the first place? We should find that guy and laugh at him.

But its all in your mind so I will laugh at you instead

I believe it was you.

You believe wrong

You're the one who maintains that somehow shutting down the clinic has resulted in an outbreak. At least according to your thread title and op.

Moron. This is too complex for you.

Ironic...Read the title again then go fuck yourself dummy lol

It's bad enough that you don't understand the English that other people use.

But when you're clueless as to what YOU say, that's pretty bad.

"Indiana Shut Down Its Rural Planned Parenthood Clinics And Got An HIV Outbreak"

I know you don't understand that statement, as evinced by your denial that it's an assertion that shutting down PP caused an HIV outbreak.

But those of us who do know English know what you said. And you can't un-say it, you retard.

Why do you keep using the word "caused" when no one but you are saying it?

To lie about it *ding

 

[Dont Taz Me Bro]

I'm trying to understand exactly why the taxpayers need to be financially responsible for other people's sex lives.

I'm trying to understand why the Republicans are trying to run other people's sex lives.

You mean kind of like the way Democrats did in California regarding sex on college campuses?

You seem to want the government to fund people's sexual activities, but then you act outraged when they want to dictate to you how to engage in those activities.

How about the government just stay the hell out of it altogether and people be responsible for themselves? What a novel idea.

Why is the US ranked 37th for health care? Because of naive people like yourself.

It's not and my perceived naivete has nothing to do with the American health care system. You're deflecting.

 

[Dont Taz Me Bro]

I'm trying to understand exactly why the taxpayers need to be financially responsible for other people's sex lives.

I'm trying to understand why the Republicans are trying to run other people's sex lives.

You mean kind of like the way Democrats did in California regarding sex on college campuses?

You seem to want the government to fund people's sexual activities, but then you act outraged when they want to dictate to you how to engage in those activities.

How about the government just stay the hell out of it altogether and people be responsible for themselves? What a novel idea.

Why is the US ranked 37th for health care? Because of naive people like yourself.

wE are ranked so low because the left are the ones making up the categories and how they are rated.......

The WHO report from 2000, which is where they always get their 37th in the world talking point from, also ranks us first in the category of best health care quality, but they always fail to mention that either because it ruins their talking point or they're completely ignorant about the report and only parrot what they hear others claim.

 

[koshergrl]

Scott County, Indiana, the center of an exploding HIV outbreak, has been without an HIV testing center since early 2013, when the sole provider -- a Planned Parenthood clinic -- was forced to close its doors. The clinic did not offer abortion services.

The Scott County clinic and four other Planned Parenthood facilities in the state, all of which provided HIV testing and information, have shuttered since 2011, in large part due to funding cuts to the state's public health infrastructure. Those cuts came amid a national and local political campaign to demonize the health care provider. Now, the state is scrambling to erect pop-up clinics to combat an unprecedented HIV epidemic caused by intravenous drug use.

The fact that Scott County was "without a testing facility until a few weeks ago is a glaring example of the kind of public health crisis that results when prevention and testing are left unfunded," said Patti Stauffer, Planned Parenthood of Indiana and Kentucky's vice president for public policy.

Indiana's GOP-led state legislature was one of the first to declare war against Planned Parenthood in 2011, when it passed a bill that defunded the family planning providerbecause some of its clinics offer abortion services. A federal judge later blocked that law from going into effect, but the state has continued to slash various sources of funding to Planned Parenthood at a time when the cost of operating a medical facility continues to rise.

In 2005, Planned Parenthood of Indiana received a total of $3.3 million in funding from government contracts and grants. By 2014, that funding had dropped to $1.9 million. Five of Planned Parenthood’s smaller clinics in the state -- the health centers in Scottsburg, Madison, Richmond, Bedford and Warsaw -- were unable to keep up with the growing technology costs that were necessary to remain competitive as a medical provider. All five clinics that were forced to close had offered HIV testing. None had offered abortions.

Even without five of its clinics, Planned Parenthood's HIV testing in Indiana has been increasing each year. Overall, the provider's 25 remaining clinics in Kentucky and Indiana gave more than 8,000 HIV tests in 2014, about 1,000 more than the previous year. And the numbers would certainly be higher if the five shuttered clinics in Indiana had been able to continue to operate.

Stauffer said if the Planned Parenthood facilities in Scottsburg and Madison, both in southwest rural Indiana, had received the funding they needed to stay open, they could have been a vital resource in preventing the current HIV outbreak.

"We applaud the state’s public health officials in acting to address this epidemic, but we also encourage our legislators to adequately fund public health efforts to protect all Hoosiers from future health crises from HIV and other devastating outcomes," said Stauffer.

Indiana Gov. Mike Pence (R) has warned that the HIV outbreak amounts to an epidemic. Last week, he broke with previous policy to create a temporary needle-exchange program to stem the tide. His office did not immediately respond to a request for comment.


And there you have it....the unintended but easily forecastable problem with closing down Planned Parenthood because of the name instead of the services provided.

HIV is probably the most preventable disease we've ever had. It is almost exclusively spread by behavior that people KNOW is wrong. We wouldn't need testing centers if people would simply do the right thing.

You realize that most people globally with Hiv/Aids are heterosexual right? So being gay or not doesn't reduce your risk of getting it.

Uh, you obviously have no comprehension of statistics.

Yes, gays are a LOT more likely to get it.

Worldwide (read..AFRICA), women get it a lot, because their HIV infected homo/drug addicted/sex market boyfriends and husbands bring it home to them. They infect their women, who in turn infect their unborn children.

But in THIS country, it is almost EXCLUSIVELY transmitted between homosexual men.

 

[Faun]

How an HIV outbreak hit rural Indiana and why we should be paying attention - The Washington Post

... from your link ...

"When you don’t have a health-care system where people have access to testing and treatment, the introduction of one infection into a community of drug users can turn into an outbreak," said Tony Fauci, director of the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases.​

... testing for HIV was a service lost when Planned Parenthood was shut down.

 

[Uncensored2008]

What does Planned Parenthood have to do with intravenous drug use? Stupid thread.

Ever see a CC thread that wasn't stupid?

 

[iamwhatiseem]

Lmao at people who think that letting infected people be is going to result in less money.

It's always money with you guys. Go ahead, it's not like your family can catch it.

No one is letting infected people be.
Your at it again with making shit up. They are handing out free needles, the governor called the situation a state of emergency which puts into play all kinds of agencies and funds.

Who said someone is letting them be? You should calm down and learn to read before going all in like that.

No one is hiding anything. This has been front page news here for months.
There have been news alerts/hospital treatment centers setup/free needles with no questions asked/stepped up police investigations and increased State Police to target Meth labs and traffickers.
It is hard to stop people from doing something they are doing to themselves.
But go ahead and ignore this post as well and keep making shit up.

I'm not ignoring it just confused as to what I made up. So far you just misread...thats your fault not mine silly

Closing Planned Parenthood locations has absolute zero to do with a drug induced HIV outbreak. ZERO. Nada. Nothing.
We have very serious Meth problem in Indiana. It is nothing other than astounding that the Police have shut down now over 15,000 Meth labs in just 10 years. Most of which are in southern/eastern Indiana counties. Counties with LOW populations.
Meth use is extraordinarily high...thus...people sharing needles. Thus diseases.

Making the false connection with Planned parenthood closings and even more ridiculous connection to religion is just plain dumb.

 

[Faun]

Scott County, Indiana, the center of an exploding HIV outbreak, has been without an HIV testing center since early 2013, when the sole provider -- a Planned Parenthood clinic -- was forced to close its doors. The clinic did not offer abortion services.

The Scott County clinic and four other Planned Parenthood facilities in the state, all of which provided HIV testing and information, have shuttered since 2011, in large part due to funding cuts to the state's public health infrastructure. Those cuts came amid a national and local political campaign to demonize the health care provider. Now, the state is scrambling to erect pop-up clinics to combat an unprecedented HIV epidemic caused by intravenous drug use.

The fact that Scott County was "without a testing facility until a few weeks ago is a glaring example of the kind of public health crisis that results when prevention and testing are left unfunded," said Patti Stauffer, Planned Parenthood of Indiana and Kentucky's vice president for public policy.

Indiana's GOP-led state legislature was one of the first to declare war against Planned Parenthood in 2011, when it passed a bill that defunded the family planning providerbecause some of its clinics offer abortion services. A federal judge later blocked that law from going into effect, but the state has continued to slash various sources of funding to Planned Parenthood at a time when the cost of operating a medical facility continues to rise.

In 2005, Planned Parenthood of Indiana received a total of $3.3 million in funding from government contracts and grants. By 2014, that funding had dropped to $1.9 million. Five of Planned Parenthood’s smaller clinics in the state -- the health centers in Scottsburg, Madison, Richmond, Bedford and Warsaw -- were unable to keep up with the growing technology costs that were necessary to remain competitive as a medical provider. All five clinics that were forced to close had offered HIV testing. None had offered abortions.

Even without five of its clinics, Planned Parenthood's HIV testing in Indiana has been increasing each year. Overall, the provider's 25 remaining clinics in Kentucky and Indiana gave more than 8,000 HIV tests in 2014, about 1,000 more than the previous year. And the numbers would certainly be higher if the five shuttered clinics in Indiana had been able to continue to operate.

Stauffer said if the Planned Parenthood facilities in Scottsburg and Madison, both in southwest rural Indiana, had received the funding they needed to stay open, they could have been a vital resource in preventing the current HIV outbreak.

"We applaud the state’s public health officials in acting to address this epidemic, but we also encourage our legislators to adequately fund public health efforts to protect all Hoosiers from future health crises from HIV and other devastating outcomes," said Stauffer.

Indiana Gov. Mike Pence (R) has warned that the HIV outbreak amounts to an epidemic. Last week, he broke with previous policy to create a temporary needle-exchange program to stem the tide. His office did not immediately respond to a request for comment.


And there you have it....the unintended but easily forecastable problem with closing down Planned Parenthood because of the name instead of the services provided.

HIV is probably the most preventable disease we've ever had. It is almost exclusively spread by behavior that people KNOW is wrong. We wouldn't need testing centers if people would simply do the right thing.

You realize that most people globally with Hiv/Aids are heterosexual right? So being gay or not doesn't reduce your risk of getting it.

Uh, you obviously have no comprehension of statistics.

Yes, gays are a LOT more likely to get it.

Worldwide (read..AFRICA), women get it a lot, because their HIV infected homo/drug addicted/sex market boyfriends and husbands bring it home to them. They infect their women, who in turn infect their unborn children.

But in THIS country, it is almost EXCLUSIVELY transmitted between homosexual men.

Too stupid as always.

Actually ... in this country ... almost 1/3 of new cases reported are among heterosexuals...

CDC HIV in the United States Statistics Overview Statistics Center HIV AIDS