TAMPA, Fla. — Florida has some of the highest rates of new HIV diagnoses in the United States, ranking third nationally, according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention .

What You Need To Know • Clinics like Metro Inclusive Health depend on funding that comes from programs like the "Ending the HIV Epidemic Initiative," or the EHE program • Experts say that for years, HIV prevention and treatment funding has been mainly bipartisan • But now they say House Republicans are asking for nearly $2 billion in budget cuts, while the Senate is asking for it to remain mostly the same

It’s why experts say preventative care, education and HIV treatment are so important.

But newly proposed cuts to the federal budget are threatening to limit those life-saving measures, and advocates

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