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Impoverished Kenyans living with HIV/AIDs are sometimes selling their antiretroviral drugs to buy food for themselves and their families. Medical professionals believe there has been a slight growth in the trend, saying that people are simply trying to survive.
05 March 2013 | Voice of America
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A federal judge has ruled that two New York City realtors discriminated against people with AIDS because they received housing subsidies.
06 December 2012 | Poz magazine news
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The aim, to get people with HIV back to work, is laudable, but the means are devastating. Government figures show that a shocking 44 per cent of people with HIV who have completed a "Work Capability Assessment" have had their support cut off, and charities warn that it is causing destitution.
03 December 2012 | New Statesman
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A new survey has shown that two thirds of life assurance companies now offer HIV life assurance through independent brokers. But whilst 40% of bank assurers asked are now stating they offer HIV life assurance, very few of their offers are being taken up.
21 November 2012 | Gay Star News
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Nombulelo Manala Lubhelu (45) of Lusikisiki-kwaGqwarhu location has taken the tough decision of declining lifesaving antiretrovirals (ARVs) because she is simply too poor to buy food and does not want to take her medication on an empty stomach.
31 October 2012 | AllAfrica
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The illegal sale of antiretroviral (ARV) drugs that curb HIV, the virus that causes AIDS, is rampant in Kenya. Patients who receive the drugs for free under international aid programs are selling them to wealthy people who want to keep their HIV secret, or to those elsewhere in Africa who face difficulties obtaining the medication.
29 October 2012 | The Asahi Shimbun
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Research shows that HIV-positive people are “at last” insuring themselves for “useful” amounts.
10 September 2012 | Health Insurance and Protection
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Homeless people across the world have dramatically higher rates of infection with tuberculosis (TB), HIV and hepatitis C and could fuel community epidemics that cost governments dear, a study showed on Monday.
23 August 2012 | Reuters
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Inadequate access to nutritious food is associated with increased hospitalizations and emergency room visits among HIV-positive individuals, and ensuring that patients have enough to eat may need to be a priority for the doctors and nurses who treat them, the San Francisco Chronicle says.
In a paper released Wednesday, the scientists reported that 56 percent of HIV-positive patients who are homeless or living in substandard housing are also food insecure, which is defined as a regular inability to obtain enough healthy food. The researchers looked at 347 HIV patients, all of whom live in San Francisco.
22 August 2012 | San Francisco Chronicle
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NAT today launches ‘HIV social care in England – a survey of local council funding’, looking into how HIV social care spending and services have changed over time. This report compares results with a similar survey from NAT in 2008.
09 August 2012 | NAT press release
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