Funding for an Atlanta-based program that has provided nearly 1 million free HIV home testing kits nationwide has been restored, allowing it to continue for another year.

Together Take Me Home, based at Emory University, delivers the tests through an easy-to-use website and integration with dating apps. The program is funded by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention and earlier this year received notice that its funding would not be renewed amid cuts to the CDC.

That decision has been reversed, said Dr. Travis Sanchez, the project’s executive director and a professor at Emory University’s Rollins School of Public Health. The project will get $10 million for its fourth year, which runs through October 2026 – $2 million more than the prior year. The grant was for around $55 million

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