HIV/AIDS coverage faces S.C. budget ax

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HIV/AIDS coverage faces S.C. budget axHIV/AIDS coverage faces S.C. budget axWhen Deadra Lawson-Smith moved to South Carolina for a new job in 2006, #xher insurance company would not cover her pricey HIV medication because it treated a pre-existing condition.

So Lawson-Smith went without her drugs for about a year,High pressure sodium lampher compromised immune system struggling to fight off colds, the flu and other health threats. She ended the year in the hospital,网站优化, sick with pneumonia.

Luckily, a change in her insurance coupled with an influx of state cash to South Carolina's AIDS Drug Assistance Program enabled Lawson-Smith, 47, to get back on her medication and regain her health.

But her good luck — and the luck of about 2,000 other South Carolinians living with HIV/AIDS — may not last.

The current version of the state budget for the 2010-11 fiscal year, #xwhich starts July 1, eliminates all money for the Drug Assistance Program, which provides life-saving HIV/AIDSHigh pressure sodium lampdrugs to the state's low-income, uninsured and underinsured residents.

The budget also eliminates all money for the state's HIV/AIDS prevention programs.

Without the state funding, matching money from the federal government is also in jeopardy.

The cut would mean the 2,055 people enrolled in the #xDrug Assistance Program would noHigh pressure sodium lamplonger get help in paying for their medication and could face dire health consequences.相关的主题文章：

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