H.I.V. S O S (Treatment as prevention.)

More data to support the great "bang for the buck" that ADAP represents in the world of AIDS. I'm fortunate to live in a state that has repeatedly stated the intent to maintain ADAP in a drastically shrinking budget. ~ pinto

H.I.V. S O S

By Charles M. Blow
Published: May 13, 2011


That’s the way scientists describe a striking and incredibly encouraging new finding of a large clinical trial released on Thursday that found that H.I.V.-infected people who took antiretroviral drugs were 96 percent less likely to pass on the disease than those who didn’t.

This is an extraordinary finding, coming in the year of the 30th anniversary of the AIDS epidemic in America.

This now shines a harsh light on the cruelty-creep and passion-drift by federal and state governments whose lack of financing and fealty in the fight against AIDS has had the effect of either starving or restricting support, services and prevention efforts for people with H.I.V. and those at risk of contracting it.

In light of this week’s news, perhaps no program becomes more important or in more urgent need of reconsideration than the nation’s AIDS Drug Assistance Programs, or ADAPs, for low-income patients. ADAPs are co-funded by federal and state governments and now find themselves in a bit of a crisis.

http://www.nytimes.com/2011/05/14/opinion/14blow.html?_r=1&hp