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Miami Herald - Sunday, July 12, 1998
Leslie Casimir, Herald Staff Writer
The ordinance to create a Miami-Dade HIV/AIDS Partnership is scheduled for a preliminary vote July 21 at County Commission chambers.
Before then, county officials are required to hear from the people who are living with AIDS on what type of services they need and how this partnership should be structured.
The first town hall meeting will take place Wednesday in Florida City. Officials will than travel north to Overtown, Hialeah, Liberty City, Little Haiti and south Miami Beach.
"It is vitally important for us to hear the community's needs," said Dan Wall, the county's project director for Ryan White Title I Program, one of the programs that receives government funding. "We have the same core set of people who participate in this process -- we need to expand that."
Last year, a consortium of AIDS organizations agreed to form a county agency that coordinates housing, treatment, food vouchers and other social services such as prevention.
This move will eliminate the many levels of bureaucracy involved with dealing with four advisory boards -- the city of Miami's Housing Opportunities for People with AIDS, the HIV Health Services Planning Council, the South Florida AIDS Consortium and the Dade Community Planning Group.
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