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Title: UCSF to close trans programs
Post by: LostInTime on March 08, 2007, 05:17:35 AM
LINK (http://www.ebar.com/news/article.php?sec=news&article=1632)

The Transitions Project, housed under the Center for AIDS Prevention Studies at UCSF, has an annual budget of $450,000 and opened in 2005 to provide healthcare research about HIV/AIDS, substance abuse, and general access to cultural sensitivity training for health care professionals, according to Joanne Keatley, who co-founded the project but left in November 2005 for another position at the university.
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But on July 1, the three major grants that fund the programs – including those from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention and the National Institute of Drug Abuse – will end, according to Susan Kegeles, co-director of CAPS.

"That's a very difficult situation," said Kegeles. "When a grant ends you're stuck with no way of supporting it."