Georgia will receive more than $8-million in emergency federal funds to pay for HIV/AIDS medications.
The money is supposed to eliminate the state’s two-year old “AIDS Drug Assistance Program” wait-list.
More than 400 HIV-positive Georgians are on that list, down from more than 1,600 a year ago. (Despite the state’s wait-list, no patient in Georgia is being denied medication because pharmaceutical companies are providing the drugs through their own assistance programs.)
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