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More Patients Can Get AIDS Drugs, but Cost Is A Burden
July 15, 2008
By Kathleen Hom
To protest the cost of his medication, a man with AIDS in Mexico City wears a crown of syringes.
Although the United Nations reported last month that more HIV-positive people in the developing world are able to get antiretroviral drugs than before, 70 percent of AIDS sufferers still don't have access.
In the United States, where people with AIDS are living longer, many need long-term medications that control hypertension, cholesterol levels and diabetes in addition to antiretroviral drugs. Combine that with the recent rise in the cost of such basics as food and fuel, says Margaret Hoffman-Terry of the American Academy of HIV Medicine, and the situation has become so bad that some of her patients decide to forfeit their medications.
© 2008 The Washington Post Company
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http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/07/14/AR2008071402175.html
category: News from Other Sources : General Health News
contributed by Liza Nanni on 15 July 2008
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