LGBT Clinic in Cash Crisis

Chicago's Howard Brown Health Center, an LGBT-focused clinic that serves many people with HIV or AIDS, is making an emergency appeal for funds.

The center needs to raise $500,000 in the next 50 days to continue providing services, officials said at a press conference Thursday, Windy City Times reports.

The funding shortfall at Howard Brown, which has operated for 36 years, is linked to mishandling of a federal grant by the previous management team. The center brought in new management this past summer, and it has asked the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services's Office of Inspector General to investigate the situation surrounding the grant.

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