March 2005 Cover
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An Alabama health official told state lawmakers last month that 514 HIV-positive people will be removed from the state's AIDS Drug Assistance Program in April unless the program receives an additional $3.5 million in funding. ADAPs are federal- and state-funded programs
that provide HIV/AIDS-related medications to low-income, uninsured and underinsured HIV-positive individuals.
Currently, 1,189 people are enrolled in the program and 443 people are on a waiting list, which jumped from 138 people in fiscal year 2004 after the state capped ADAP enrollment. Without additional funding, the program will have to cut 514 people to bring enrollment
down to 675, a move that will push the waiting list to 1,092 people, including projected new cases. Alabama was the only state to have an ADAP waiting list every month between July 2002 and November 2004.
Editor's Note: from the Birmingham News
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