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Did Keisha Lance Bottoms make Atlanta's first city investment in HIV prevention?

Matches stated direction. In 2019 the council approved her plan to give $100,000 for PrEP and counseling; city records do not say whether it was the city's first HIV prevention spending.

Keisha Lance Bottoms

City money for HIV prevention

Matches stated direction

What they say

Her campaign says she made the city's first direct investment in HIV prevention and expanded access to PrEP, a medicine that prevents HIV.

“Made the first direct city investment in HIV prevention and expanded access to PrEP”

Source: Keisha for Governor

What the record shows · May 20, 2019

In May 2019 the city council unanimously approved her plan to give $100,000 to the Fulton County Board of Health for PrEP and counseling for people at high risk. Her office called it her legislation; Councilmember Antonio Brown sponsored it.

Sources: City of Atlanta, Mayor's Office of Communications

Limit: The city records read here do not say whether this was its first HIV prevention spending. The same release lists a separate $10,000 city grant for a mobile HIV testing unit.

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