AIDS Program Faces Financial Trouble
By: Import User
Updated: January 7, 2009
The Arkansas AIDS Drug Assistance Program
may be well on its way to elimination because of a lack of funding
and the rising cost of medications, according to Malik (mah-LEEK)
Blackmon of Positive Voices, a community outreach program that
deals with AIDS patients.
The program`s 660-thousand dollar budget from previous years was
cut completely in the state`s 2003 legislative session, and federal
funding is expected to fall about 900-thousand dollars short of
what`s needed in Arkansas.
Medications are provided by the drug assistance program to treat
H-I-V-positive Arkansans, typically in the early stages of the
disease. The drugs are intended to prevent the transmission of AIDS
and increase the life expectancy for AIDS sufferers.
Posted by Mike Hellgren
