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City Council Grills HRA Commissioner on illegal HASA cuts
On Tuesday City Council members ripped into Human Resources Administration Commissioner Robert Doar for Mayor Bloomberg’s deep proposed cuts to the HIV/AIDS Services Administration. General Welfare Chair Annabel Palma declared fighting the cut to 248 HASA case managers— 28 percent of the total—her top priority, and held a press conference with advocates before the hearing. In addition to Palma, council member Charles Barron was one of Doar’s harshest critics. When Doar remarked he was “proud” of his department, Barron responded. “We’re not looking for you being proud. Some people say we’re cutting to the bone. But this is cutting to the marrow. I know people don’t like to deal with race, but race still matters. And the people who struggle most are poor families of color and we want to make sure the budget’s not balanced on their backs if there are alternatives.” Bloomberg’s cut is a clear violation of…
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To save ADAP, universal health reform needed
Thanks to the current financial crisis, the AIDS Drug Assistance Program (ADAP), an already tenuous treatment access safety net for people living with HIV/AIDS, is becoming even less secure. Twenty-two states are imposing waiting lists or cost containment measures. But problems with ADAP, the “payer of last resort for people with HIV/AIDS,” is symbolic of larger problems that won’t go away until there is universal health care. “This is a symptom of a fractured health care system,” said Ryan Clary, director of public policy at Project Inform. “We’re lucky we’ve built this, but it’s indicative of a health care system failure.” As of March 5, there were 662 individuals on ADAP waiting lists in ten states. According to NASTAD’s ADAP Watch, that is a 58 percent increase from the 418 individuals in December 2009, and a complete shift for the worse from single person on a waiting list as of…
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Submit Your Research to the AIDS Housing Summit!
Do you have AIDS housing research that you want to share with an international crowd? Submit abstracts for the fifth-annual North American Housing and HIV/AIDS Research Summit in Toronto, Ontario by March 22! The conference takes place June 2 to 4. Both research and policy abstracts are encouraged, and abstracts may be submitted for oral or poster presentations. Notification of acceptance will be emailed no later than April 16, 2010. Conference fees will be waived for presenting authors. Even if you aren’t submitting an abstract, register for the summit! Early Bird registration is available until April 23. The Housing and HIV/AIDS Research Summit series is an interdisciplinary, interactive forum for the presentation of research findings on the relationship of housing status and HIV prevention and care, coupled with dialogue on public policy implications and strategies. Summit V continues the collaboration between the U.S. National AIDS Housing Coalition (NAHC) and the…
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