A federal judge blocked the Trump administration from cutting more than $600 million in health care grants for Illinois and three other states.
The National Institutes of Health has halted funding for dozens of HIV-based research grants.
World AIDS Day highlights progress, honors lives lost, and calls for renewed efforts to combat HIV/AIDS.
The red ribbon was cut on World AIDS Day at the Life is Work Resource Center, an HIV awareness and prevention facility in the Austin neighborhood.
HIV is not easily transmitted to another person. It can't be spread through saliva, sweat, tears, communal exercise or sharing a bathroom.
Wednesday is National Black HIV/AIDS Awareness Day, and a local church is partnering with an LGBTQ+ organization to provide free HIV testing every month.