States cut back efforts to provide drugs for HIV, AIDS
Cash-strapped states are scaling back efforts to provide life-saving medicines to HIV patients.
The result: more than 8300 people - a record number - are on waiting lists in 13 states to get antiretrovirals and other drugs used to treat HIV and AIDS or the side effects, mental health conditions or opportunistic infections. And that number probably understates the need, say advocates, who note that many states have simply eliminated waiting lists or reduced eligibility. Read on.