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  • HIV Patients in Georgia are Drowning. Will the State Do the Right Thing?

    With the nation hurdling towards January 1, 2014, when some important parts of the Affordable Care Act (ACA) kick in, individual states are frantically scrambling to get ready — or digging in their heels in stubbornness that could have serious consequences for their residents. Georgia is one of several states that has refused Medicaid expansion, a decision that represents serious risks to its most low-income, vulnerable residents, especially the population of people living with HIV and AIDS.

    07 May 2013 | Care 2
  • Study: Undocumented Latinos Get Into HIV Treatment Dangerously Late

    A recent study conducted at a free clinic in Houston found undocumented Latinos with HIV infections enter care with more advanced disease than other patients. Despite getting medical care at later dates, however, undocumented Latinos with HIV achieved similar success in treatment as documented Latino and white patients.

    04 April 2013 | ColorLines
  • Antiretroviral Drugs Sold for Food in Kenya’s Slums

    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
  • NYC Realtors Guilty of Discriminating Against People With AIDS

    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
  • The impact of welfare cuts: living with HIV just got harder

    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
  • UK: Life assurance companies better than banks for HIV cover

    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
  • South Africa: Surviving On an Empty Stomach

    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
  • For many destitute Kenyans, illegal sales of anti-HIV drugs only means of survival

    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
  • Size of average HIV life policy revealed

    Research shows that HIV-positive people are “at last” insuring themselves for “useful” amounts.

    10 September 2012 | Health Insurance and Protection
  • Infections among homeless could fuel wider epidemics: study

    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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