Georgia Gets Millions to End HIV/AIDS Drug Assistance Wait-List
Georgia will receive more than $8-million in emergency federal funds to pay for HIV/AIDS medications.
The money is supposed to eliminate the state’s two-year old “AIDS Drug Assistance Program” wait-list.
More than 400 HIV-positive Georgians are on that list, down from more than 1,600 a year ago. (Despite the state’s wait-list, no patient in Georgia is being denied medication because pharmaceutical companies are providing the drugs through their own assistance programs.)
But is the new money enough to pay for medications for everyone on the list?
“It will certainly make a big dent,” says Jackque Muther with Atlanta’s Ponce Center. ”It may even end [the wait list] temporarily. But it’s too early to tell.”
In all, 25 states will receive more than $69-million in emergency and ongoing grants to help those with HIV who can’t afford treatment.
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