AIDS Funding Cuts Feared in South Carolina Counties
More on a story we've been following
at Rod 2.0. The Republican dominated legislature in South Carolina has proposed to cut its entire HIV/AIDS budget, including funding to the AIDS Drug Assistance Program. ADAP helps lowincome HIVers, many of whom are who are unemployed or uninsured, pay
The agency that administers South Carolina's ADAP is http://www.dolphinsofficialnflstore.com/81-dustin-keller-jersey-authentic-black-limited-cheap.html concerned about the availability of lifesaving medications in critical counties, reports The Times and Democrat.
The Edisto Health District, which serves Orangeburg, Calhoun and
Bamberg counties, has one of the highest rates in the state of people
infected with HIV/AIDS. With state appropriations to the AIDS Drug Assistance Program facing an
estimated $4.1 million shortfall, many local health and community
leaders are concerned about the availability of critical medications for
those living with HIV/AIDS. HIV Care Crisis Task Force reports that Dion Jordan Black Jersey the annual funding need
based on current patient load is $25.2 million for medications, with
the current ADAP budget standing at only $21.1 million.
The South Carolina HIV/AIDS Care Crisis Task Force reports that there are
1,163 individuals living with HIV/AIDS in the District. Eightyfive percent of that population is black. ADAP serves 233 people in that district. "I received ADAP funding assistance back in 1991, but http://www.dolphinsofficialnflstore.com back then, it was
easier to get into the program than it is now," one man said. "It was a
good thing, because I really couldn't afford my medication. The job
insurance wouldn't cover it because of the price tag, and my concern now
is how the younger generation who are being diagnosed HIVpositive are
going to survive Dion Jordan Elite Jersey if they can't get the medication that they need."
The good news: While the proposed budget provides no statebased
funding, ADAP will continue to run on $2.2 million from the federal government via Medicaid. But that means it will serve only a fraction of its caseload.
Meanwhile: More than 700 people are newly diagnosed with HIV each year, and more
than 100 new ADAP applications arrive each month. And in South Carolina, just like many states across the South, that means black gay and bi men will be hardest hit. According to the Department of Health and Environmental Control, black men account for about half of persons recently diagnosed with HIV/AIDS in South Carolina. The vast majority, some 70 percent of those cases, are "attributed to sexual contact among men who have sex with men (MSM)."
Our latest article for Black AIDS Weekly, "Recession Forces States to Slash AIDS Drug Assistance
Programs", surveys then nationwide trend toward cutting ADAP
funding. HIV positive black gay men discuss what their life would bewithout ADAP. Read the full article HERE.
"my concern now is how the younger generation who are being diagnosed HIVpositive are going to survive if they can get the medication that they need."
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