Counting the costs of Aids
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Focuses on the increasing strain caused by AIDS to the medical care system in Southern Africa according to discussions at the International Symposium on HIV/AIDS and Sexually Transmitted Diseases in Lusaka, Zambia. Hospital bed occupancy among AIDS patients; Scarcity of medical services for...
- Impact of AIDS continues to grow. // Advocate;2/23/93, Issue 623, p23
Presents reports from two U.S. federal agencies released in January 1993 which documented the effect of AIDS on the nation's health care system. Figures indicating that AIDS replaced murder as the tenth most common cause of death of Americans in the 1990s; Amount spent by the federal...
- NEWS IN BRIEF: MARYLAND. // Advocate;2/23/93, Issue 623, p26
Reports that members of the advisory council on AIDS of Maryland governor William Donald Schaefer voted to recast their panel as a watchdog group, after they learned that the governor is planning to dissolve the group and give its responsibilities to the Maryland Drug and Alcohol Advisory Council.
- Cutting it close. Bull, Chris // Advocate;6/14/94, Issue 657, p20
Discusses the decision made by New York mayor Rudolph Giuliani to suspend the plan to decrease the budget for the city's Division of AIDS Services for 1995. Motive behind the mayor's decision; Response of AIDS activists to the announcement made by the city mayor.
- Does Access to Health Care Impact Survival Time after Diagnosis of AIDS? Montgomery, Jolynn Pratt; Gillespie, Brenda W.; Gentry, Anne C.; Mokotoff, Eve D.; Crane, Lawrence R.; James, Sherman A. // AIDS Patient Care & STDs;May2002, Vol. 16 Issue 5, p223
Lack of access to health care is often blamed for poor health outcomes, but this effect is not supported by existing HIV/AIDS literature. The authors examined the association between access to care and survival time after progression to AIDS, using survival analysis methods. This study combined...
- HIV SERVICES PLANNING COUNCIL SEEKS NEW MEMBERS. Radosta, Jim; Krause, Timothy; Fleischmann, Marie // Just Out;5/16/2003, Vol. 20 Issue 14, p9
Reports that the Portland Area HIV Services Planning Council is accepting membership applications for two-year terms beginning October 1, 2003. Importance of joining the council; Background on how the council's membership reflects the demographics of the AIDS epidemic.
- New York City bites the budget bullet. Dahir, Mubarak // Advocate;6/24/2003, Issue 892, p34
New York City has served as a model for AIDS health care in many cities around the world. So AIDS activists are not sure what to make of Mayor of the city Michael Bloomberg's decision to reconfigure the Mayor's Office of AIDS Policy Coordination as well as the HIV Planning Council. The mayor...
- NEWS IN BRIEF: MASSACHUSETTS. // Advocate;2/12/91, Issue 570, p25
Reports that the Massachusetts health department has said in a January 9, 1991 report that state AIDS services must be expanded.
- AIDS Epidemic Grows in Postcoup Haiti. d'Adesky, Ane-Christine // Advocate;4/7/92, Issue 600, p56
Discusses how the incidence of AIDS will increase in Haiti, following the September 1991 military coup. Effect of the embargo imposed on the country by the international community on its health care delivery system; Effect of the decision of the World Health Organization and the United States...
