States Cut Funding For HIV, AIDS Drugs, Record Number Of People On Waiting Lists

Washington Post:

Cash-strapped states are scaling back efforts to provide life-saving medicines to HIV patients.

The result: more than 8,300 people -- a record number -- are on waiting lists in 13 states to get antiretrovirals and other drugs used to treat HIV and AIDS or the side effects, mental health conditions or opportunistic infections. And that number probably understates the need, say advocates, who note that many states have simply eliminated waiting lists or reduced eligibility.

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Comments

[resolveAIDS]

10:26 AM on 05/26/2011

The re:solve AIDS project is raising money to get a promising AIDS vaccine through human testing so that it can be produced and made available to everyone who needs it. http://bit.ly/e4ehI7

[Mort]

10:29 PM on 05/24/2011

He claims to have healed Magic Johnson, Eddie Murphy and other celebs with his electric food. I found independent blogs where folks say they're trying his products, but none that said they were cured of anything. Magic would sure be an asset to him if he were to say something, anything.

Cancer, AIDS, herpes.... it's amazing what someone can do (well, claim to do) without even a grade school education!

[firewmn]

09:37 AM on 05/24/2011

Republican death panels

[Kayemu]

07:47 AM on 05/24/2011

This is madness.

[Sisa]

06:59 AM on 05/24/2011

Close ... What I think you meant to say is just raise taxes on the rich.

[Nighthawk1982]

12:16 AM on 05/24/2011

GOP doesn't care who dies as long as they get elected.

[HouseOfNumber]

11:19 PM on 05/23/2011

Dr. Nancy Padian 10-year study on HIV transmission bit.ly/lbJha6 (video) bit.ly/kA0FjO (Paper)

[tortillaj]

10:39 PM on 05/23/2011

For a history of the HIV crisis in America, read (or watch) "And The Band Played On." It is a lengthy, but easy book to read. It's in movie form too if you don't care to read. You will learn how the discovery of the virus unfolded from many different perspectives. You will learn how incredibly poorly HIV patients have been treated. No other disease in modern times will cause society to literally just let the patients, from infants to the elderly, die.

The fact of the matter is, the AIDS crisis grew to what it is now because of how afraid people are to discuss it, think about it and treat it. The HIV rate is so much lower in Europe because it was never thought of as "gay disease," because what disease knows your sexual orientation? They allowed themselves to understand early on that this virus can and will infect anyone. They chose pragmatism. Now Germany is producing the first person cured of AIDS.

Cutting funding to the sick is despicable when viewed against tax cuts to the wealthy. It's truly barbaric.

[BobRobertsFeltRedundant]

07:53 PM on 05/23/2011

god created us in gods image

which means god is 10% gay. Get over it teabaggers

[ndtovent]

06:13 PM on 05/23/2011

I'm very late reading this post, but I'd like to add my two cents in response to all you hetero people spewing hate towards gay men on this thread: It wasn't all that long ago (60 years ago and prior) that syphilis was the big std killer in heterosexual adults for many centuries until penicillin was developed into an effective antibiotic. And many of those who didn't die from it suffered lifelong complications as a result (mental illness, physical handicaps--some severe, sterility, some forms of cancer, etc.). As quickly as viruses mutate, it's not out of the question that another killer std epidemic could occur once again in the hetero community, for which there is no treatment or cure. I'd be a little less judgmental and a little more compassionate toward your fellow citizens if were you.

[yoyodyne666]

10:30 PM on 05/23/2011

Agreed, a life is a life.

[Benjo333]

04:33 PM on 05/23/2011

So much judgement here in the posting for homosexual males. Oddly, if you look at the infection rate according to The Centers For Disease Control, you would find infection rates for Genital Herpes Type II amongst females 14-49 and HIV/AIDS amongst homosexual males, you would find the % to be similar.

Receptive sex partners run a higher risk of contracting disease...simply put.

Is the judgement faith based here? Really? Like hetero males are not partaking in anal sex with females? Or, hetero males who enjoy anal sex themselves...it happens.

This is a warning note for homosexual makes to get busy and use condoms, as they have done...judgement or not...this country simply has judgement built into its system...please be pragmatic in your choices.

[Dreamaholic]

04:44 PM on 05/23/2011

Sounds to me that you are also making false accusations about how HIV/AIDS can be transmitted. You should warn everyone who is sexually active (old and young alike) to use protection and leave it at that!

[Benjo333]

05:06 PM on 05/23/2011

Certainly...my comment was simply posted here as commentary on those baiting homosexual males. Is it any odd coincidence that HP uses a mid age males photo in the story.

Take the story of Ryan White for example...thanks for the comment.

[Dreamaholic]

04:07 PM on 05/23/2011

It's pretty sad reading the judgmental comments here about who should and should not have to pay for medications for the_sick. Do you realize that inmates in_prison get the finest healthcare around including free dental along with all medications for whatever their needs may be? We as tax payers have to pay for this and some of you that are_attacking people here with HIV is just wrong! They have done no_crime so why can't they get medications like those that have? All our Govt is doing is forcing people to commit_crime and go to_prison in order to get medical care. Is this what we really want?

[blueeyedbull]

04:14 PM on 05/23/2011

Faved Dream.

[kyleewonder]

05:06 PM on 05/23/2011

Yes, I did know that and did you also know that if inmates beleive they have been treated unfairly that they can sue the corrections officers who put their life on the line everyday walking amongst them, looks like they have all kinds of rights and the joke is on us

[melissa halsten]

06:23 PM on 05/23/2011

Unfairly?

[Demidan]

04:07 PM on 05/23/2011

Well unlike Dana1982 I have to go cook dinner for a family. BTW Dana, didn't I see a picture of you on the site PeopleofWalmart?

[Yeah-Me]

04:05 PM on 05/23/2011

Well.. Off to work for me (the rich person that I am).

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0K2Q59eT2Us

[dpooch]

04:04 PM on 05/23/2011

So what are the regressive GOPers crying about today. My money My money. I pay I pay. Tax Tax God God I am closer to God than libs. Bla Bla Bla.

[kyleewonder]

05:09 PM on 05/23/2011

If they were actually closer to god than others then they wouldn't be passing judgement, the bib-le is the bib-le and if you are a christian you are supposed to follow all of the rules, not just the select ones you expect everyone else to

[Shain Eighmey]

11:22 PM on 05/23/2011

Some people just prefer the fun bits.