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  What's happening to benefits?

  At least 40% of people with HIV are jobless,1,2 especially those who are long-term diagnosed. Most of them will be on Incapacity Benefit or other state-provided financial assistance...

  From:HIV treatment update

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  Will a long life be a good one?

  People with HIV are now living into old age – an old age many regard with fear, as Lisa Power from the Terrence Higgins Trust finds...

  From:HIV treatment update

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  Securing your future

  Emma Lunn looks at insurance for people with HIV....

  From:HIV treatment update

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  No allowances

  An HTU reader’s experience of the DLA review, by Michael Ratsey ...

  From:HIV treatment update

Money, benefits and housing in your own words

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  Surviving isolation and abuse

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  Life on HIV treatment – a personal perspective

  I’ve been taking HIV treatment for ten years – that's longer than the average life expectancy of someone with HIV when I was diagnosed back in 1991. I’ve...

  From:In your own words

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  Taking the rubbish to the dump

  The first six months after diagnosis were a nightmare. Not just because of my HIV diagnosis but also because of general chaos in my life....

  From:In your own words

Money, benefits and housing news from aidsmap

• Unmet basic subsistence needs is the most important factor affecting health of poor HIV-positive men

  An inability to provide for the most basic needs of life is the biggest predictor of poor physical and mental health for homeless and marginally housed HIV-positive men, according to a study conducted in San Francisco and published in ...

  01 May 2012 | Michael Carter

• Guidelines developed to help boost rates of entry into HIV care, retention in care and levels of adherence

  New guidelines have been developed to improve the entry of patients into specialist HIV care and assist in their retention in this care. Published in the Annals of Internal Medicine, the guidelines make 37 specific recommendations and outline priorities for ...

  20 March 2012 | Michael Carter

• Fluctuating symptoms have major impact on quality of life and fitness to work, survey finds

  Common but non-specific symptoms of uncertain cause can dominate the day-to-day life of some people with HIV, a survey by the National AIDS Trust has found. In many cases symptoms such as fatigue, insomnia, depression, diarrhoea and neuropathy make ...

  07 September 2011 | Gus Cairns

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Money, benefits and housing news selected from other sources

• ‘Life cover is available for HIV positive clients’

  The majority of HIV positive people are still unaware they can buy life assurance, research by an advisory firm has found.

  17 May 2012 | FT Adviser

• In South LA, 'food deserts' impact health of HIV/AIDS patients

  For people living with HIV or AIDS, nutrition is a key component of any treatment plan. But living in neighborhoods where healthy food options are few and far between — with an outsize presence of fast-food outlets — eating a proper diet can prove difficult.

  08 May 2012 | Los Angeles Wave Newspapers

• As sickness benefit cuts take effect, thousands face hard times

  Fears those too ill to work will be unable to meet basic living costs as government limits contributory allowance to 365 days.

  01 May 2012 | The Guardian

• Progress with HIV undercut by lack of food or shelter

  Unmet subsistence needs - not having a place to sleep and not having access to regular meals, clean clothes or good hygiene - had the largest single effect on the physical and mental health of patients in a UCSF study of 288 homeless HIV-positive men.

  27 April 2012 | San Francisco Chronicle

• UK: HIV specialist social worker posts maintained in face of cuts

  Specialist social worker posts have been largely maintained in the face of significant cuts in social care funding for people with HIV/Aids, a survey has found. But the National Aids Trust report raised concerns about a lack of training provided for generic social care staff in supporting the client group in councils that did not employ specialist social workers.

  23 April 2012 | Community Care

• UK: NAT launches new report on HIV social care spending and services

  Encouragingly, even in a time of severe cuts in local authority funding, the report shows that many local councils still recognise the real social care needs of people with HIV, and aim to meet them.  This is largely due to the retaining of an indicative allocation for HIV social care within local council funding from central Government as welll as the powerful case being made for HIV social care at the local level by people with HIV and organisations which support them. 

  20 April 2012 | NAT press release

• Rwanda: 'Women With HIV Denied Right to Inherit'

  Many women living with HIV are being denied their rights to inherit family property by their relatives.

  17 March 2012 | AllAfrica

• Vietnam - Workshop aims to help people living with and affected by HIV/AIDS

  A consultation workshop regarding HIV/AIDS organised by the Centre for Community Health and Development (COHED) and the Irish Aid programme of the Government of Ireland was held yesterday morning in the capital.

  01 March 2012 | VietNamNet Bridge

• THT relaunches HIV hardship fund with help from Elton John AIDS Foundation

  HIV and sexual health charity Terrence Higgins Trust has relaunched a national Hardship Fund for people living with HIV in severe financial need.

  21 February 2012 | Pink News

• Outcry over NYC HIV/AIDS housing help policy

  People sickened with HIV or AIDS and seeking help from New York City to pay their rent could become ineligible for housing assistance if they refuse to go into substance abuse treatment.

  08 February 2012 | Wall Street Journal

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