CALIFORNIA IN BRIEF : SACRAMENTO : AIDS Foundation Reduces Services

The Sacramento AIDS Foundation is reducing direct services to patients in neighboring counties, saying other communities must provide more AIDS care. Sam Schuchat, deputy director of the foundation, said the organization will continue to provide training and technical expertise in AIDS prevention and treatment to health and mental health workers in Yolo, Placer, Ed Dorado and Nevada counties. But the foundation’s new strategic plan calls for it to save its care-management services, counseling, home-health care and one-on-one support services for Sacramento County’s AIDS patients. The number of Sacramento-area people with symptoms of the fatal disease has risen from two in 1982 to the more than 800 cases the foundation expects to handle this fiscal year.