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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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  From:In your own words

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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

• 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

• Sales of HIV Meds Catch Lawmakers' Eyes

  Prosecutors and legislators report an increase in illegal sales of HIV medication by people looking to feed their families or support drug habits. Will tougher criminal penalties slow the market?

  18 January 2012 | City Limits magazine

• 31 deaths during wait for benefit judgement

  More than 30 benefits claimants have died while appealing against a judgment that they were fit to work, official figures show, leading to accusations the system is in chaos.

  06 January 2012 | Herald Scotland

• Kenya families facing HIV and high food prices make tough choices on who gets fed

  Rising food prices are taking a toll in East Africa on low-income people who have the virus that causes AIDS. An expert on HIV/AIDS for the World Food Program says some HIV patients are refusing to take their medicine.

  22 December 2011 | Washington Post

• Insurers urged to start AIDS cover policies

  THE Malaysian AIDS Council has approached insurance companies to start covers for HIV infection and AIDS illness (HIV/AIDS) in the near future.

  13 December 2011 | Moreover.com HIV/AIDS feed

• HIV and hep C settlements may cost €2.23bn

  THE STATE’S bill for compensating people who contracted HIV or hepatitis C from the contamination of blood products could ultimately cost €2.23 billion, according to official estimates.

  13 December 2011 | Irish Times

• HIV traps Asian households in vicious circle of joblessness, debt

  Households in Asia that include people living with HIV exhaust their savings and liquidate assets at a disproportionately high rate, often plunging into “irreversible poverty,” according to a new UN Development Programme (UNDP) study, released today.

  02 December 2011 | UNDP press release

• Australia: Husband betrayed by wife's AIDS

  A MAN whose bride did not tell him she had AIDS has lost a battle to have his marriage declared void. The case is an Australian first.

  02 December 2011 | News.com.au

• Delhi govt to give pension to HIV patients, orphans

  The Delhi government plans to grant pensions to HIV patients, registered for treatment at (ART) centres. Announcing the new policy on World AIDS Day, Delhi Health minister said children who lost their parents to HIV but are not infected by the virus will also be covered under the scheme.

  01 December 2011 | Indian Express

• Fund Follows Scots Risk Pioneers by Insuring HIV South Africans

  The co-founder of private equity firm Leapfrog Investments is buying stakes in companies selling micro-insurance, low- premium policies sold to people in emerging markets who previously couldn’t afford to buy them. His first purchase, in December 2009, was All Life Ltd., which sells life cover for people infected with HIV in South Africa.

  16 November 2011 | Bloomberg

• HIV insurance needs still unmet

  The needs of people with HIV are still not being met, despite half of all major UK insurers claiming to offer them some form of life assurance, a medical financial advisory firm has said.

  15 November 2011 | FT Adviser

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