Ensuring Survival: The Case for New Approaches to HIV Health Care A MAP Community Forum Featuring David Holtgrave, Emory Centers for AIDS Research Macalester College Student Center 1600 Grand Avenue - Saint Paul January 25, 2005 7 to 8:30 p.m.
You add up the pieces: DHS staff is having meetings to develop guidelines for how to manage a waiting list for when they run out of money to provide drug and insurance assistance for low income Minnesotans living with HIV. The Governor talked about state health care coverage as "welfare programs" during his State of the State address, and has sent pretty clear signals that his budget will increase funding for education and stick with "no new taxes" governance by cutting health care access for low income Minnesotans. In state-after-state, ADAP - AIDS Drug Assistance Programs are falling apart. People may be able to get HIV drugs but not the ones they need, they are sitting on "waiting lists" waiting for some new money to come along, or services are being cut right and left just to pay for drugs. There are other options. Last spring the Institute of Medicine released a report describing why programs such as ADAP are needed to help us reduce HIV infections and provide essential care. It also made some smart, innovative and affordable suggestions for how to fix the situation. One of the authors of that report, Dr. David Holtgrave, will be in Saint Paul later this month to discuss the case for new approaches to HIV health care. Dr. Holtgrave is a professor at Emory University and Director of its Center for AIDS Research. He will be speaking at a public forum at Macalester College on January 25th, from 7 to 8:30 pm. This year, Minnesota AIDS Project will be working with legislators to find a resolution to the HIV health care funding crisis in Minnesota, using this Institute of Medicine report as our guide. Join us at the forum [it's free!] and find out what Minnesota's options could be. Cuts, waiting lists, or calling health care a "welfare benefit" rather than considering it as a basic right and essential part of good public health, are not the only way to go. Ensuring Survival: The Case for New Approaches to HIV Health Care Featuring David Holtgrave, Emory Centers for AIDS Research Macalester College Student Center 1600 Grand Avenue - Saint Paul January 25, 2005 7 to 8:30 p.m. http://www.mnaidproject.org/publicpolicy Elizabeth Dickinson West Side St. Paul _____________________________________________ To Join: St. Paul Issues Forum Rules Discussion Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] ____________________________________________ NEW ADDRESS FOR LIST: [email protected] To subscribe, modify subscription, or get your password - visit: http://www.mnforum.org/mailman/listinfo/stpaul Archive Address: http://www.mnforum.org/mailman/private/stpaul/
