AUSTIN (KXAN) - The health of more than 14,000 low-income Texans living with HIV and AIDS is at stake, as the Texas Senate Finance Committee takes up that section of the budget Thursday. This comes days after a Senate panel voted to spend an additional $4.5 billion on health services, not including the HIV program.

Here is the official press release from NEAC about the new website.

The NAACP issues a call to action to the faith community to champion the importance of HIV testing and prevention in their respective congregations and communities.

Father Andrew Green is stepping down from the Desert AIDS Project board of directors after 18 years of service.

The pastor of St. Paul in the Desert Episcopal Church in Palm Springs has participated in almost every AIDS Walk since its start in 1988. He joined the nonprofit organization’s board in 1993 and chaired the governance and client committees.

For Corinne Denegre, AIDS is more than a disease that touches faceless, nameless people. Denegre, chairman of the Community Service Committee at St. Stephens Episcopal Church in Billings, has had two family members diagnosed with it.

...That's why she turned to her parish, St. Stephens, to encourage people of the faith community to reach out to people with HIV or AIDS. With the blessing of the church's rector, the Rev. Jacob Knee, the church is putting on a community dinner and discussion on Sunday to help members of the faith community learn how to get involved.

"The organization will not be funded beginning April 1," says Amy McMahon, CEO of Stop AIDS. "The documentation of an audit finding is the reason that the Ohio Department of Health has said Stop AIDS is not eligible for funding." McMahon says the audit dates back to shrinking resources in 2008 that raised a red flag to the state's accountants. She says the agency made the needed budget cuts to keep operating. "It's 2011 and here we are."