COVINGTON, Ky — A Covington-based nonprofit is working to make life-saving supplies more accessible across Kentucky, particularly for LGBTQ+ communities that face barriers to care.

Queer Kentucky has placed 12 special lockers at businesses throughout the state, with six located in Northern Kentucky, providing free access to harm reduction supplies such as HIV self-testing kits, pregnancy tests, naloxone, condoms, sunscreen and aloe.

"We were able to get some funding about two years ago to do more stories around queer mental health and how that kind of ties to different issues, including substance use," said Missy Spears, executive director of Queer Kentucky.

The lockers fill a need as resources for substance use treatment become increasingly scarce in the state.

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