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ADAP Watch: AIDS Drug Wait List Hits 3,109
As of April 26th, the wait list to receive lifesaving AIDS medication through the nation’s AIDS Drug Assistance Programs had hit 3,109 people across 10 states.
The number of people waiting to receive medication through state-run AIDS drug programs has increased more than 5,000 percent since August 2009, according to the National Alliance of State and Territorial AIDS Directors. The federal government has reacted with little urgency, however, allotting just $25 million in additional dollars to the program for FY 2012.
To help readers keep tabs on the growing ADAP crisis, we are now posting the Read More
Posted on April 30, 2012 at 11:43 am
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Free Admission to Design on a Dime Public Sale Days, Meet Lara Spencer, May Shop Events
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Design on a Dime is tonight! If you haven’t purchased tickets to the benefit, you simply must join us tomorrow and Saturday from 10am – 6pm for our Public Sale Days.
Shop over 50 vignettes created by participating interior design superstars with unbelievable discounts on vintage and contemporary furniture, artwork and home accessories like this Eames credenza, this “Ice Cube” lamp, and this Liv-Chic Venetian standing floor mirror.
We also have the honor of hosting an exclusive book signing and Q&A with Design on a Dime co-chair, Good Morning America anchor, and author Lara Spencer. Lara will share secondhand treasure transformation tips from her new book, I Brake for Yard Sales: and Flea Markets, …Posted on April 26, 2012 at 9:27 am
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Ten AIDS Activists Kicked to the Curb And Arrested At ACT UP Anniversary
(for photos from today’s action visit our Flickr page)
Ten AIDS activists were arrested near City Hall today for demonstrating how Mayor Bloomberg and HRA Commissioner Robert Doar’s AIDS policies are kicking people with AIDS “to the curb.”
Housing Works activists set up a house, complete with couch, bed, sink and toilet on on Broadway across from City Hall to show the world exactly what recent HASA policies are doing to people with AIDS: creating more homelessness. NYPD came swiftly running, trashed the installation, and arrested the protesters. The demonstration was a part of the 25th Anniversary march and rally to commemorate AIDS Coalition To Unleash Power (ACT-UP), which forced NYC and the nation …
Posted on April 25, 2012 at 2:14 pm
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May at Housing Works Bookstore Cafe: Tech Longreads, Coney Island, Lit Mags, Travel & Food
April showers bring the awesome at Housing Works Bookstore Cafe this May (see what I did there?). We’re celebrating everything from Coney Island, to a new food and travel show, to reinventing your life with The $100 Startup, to a night of storytelling and music with three of our favorite literary magazines, to a night of tech storytelling as part of Internet Week New York, and beyond. Note: The American Poet launch on Thursday 4/26 has moved to the powerHouse Arena in DUMBO and now there are free drinks.
Posted on April 24, 2012 at 1:27 pm
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Disability Rights Arrested for Protesting Medicaid Cuts on Capitol Hill
One of my biggest complaints in health advocacy is that the country gets bent out of shape when government officials offer proposals to privatize Social Security or end Medicare, but there are very few people who defend Medicaid.
Well that changed this week! Today, 75 disability rights activists (along with actor Noah WIley) were arrested in Capitol Hill protesting the Paul Ryan budget, which would end Medicaid as a federal entitlement program (and completely underminte the Affordable Care Act, which uses Medicaid to expand coverage to millions of people).
“I’m getting arrested today because my Medicaid services are important to me,” said Michelle Fridley of Rochester New York in handcuffs escorted by a Capitol Police officer. “I don’t want to live …
Posted on April 24, 2012 at 1:04 pm
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US Bans Discrimination Against Transgender Federal Employees
The Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC) ruled that federal employment protection laws apply to transgender people. This could have major impact for the fight for transgender nondiscrimination laws being fought at every level of government.
Metro Weekly reports “Mia Macy [a former Pheonix, AZ police detective], a transgender woman who claims she was denied employment with the Department of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives (ATF) after the agency learned of her transition. [The ruling] also comes on the heels of a growing number of federal appellate and trial courts deciding that gender-identity discrimination constitutes sex discrimination, whether based on Title VII or the constitutional guarantee of equal protection of the laws.”
The Transgender Law Center is representing Ms. Macy …
Posted on April 23, 2012 at 3:30 pm
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ADAP Watch: AIDS Drug Wait List Hits 3,079
As of April 19th, the wait list to receive lifesaving AIDS medication through the nation’s AIDS Drug Assistance Programs had hit 3,079 people across 10 states.
The number of people waiting to receive medication through state-run AIDS drug programs has increased more than 5,000 percent since August 2009, according to the National Alliance of State and Territorial AIDS Directors. The federal government has reacted with little urgency, however, allotting just $25 million in additional dollars to the program for FY 2012.
To help readers keep tabs on the growing ADAP crisis, we are now posting the ADAP Watch—the document that …
Posted on April 23, 2012 at 10:20 am
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HRA Commish Doar to Force HASA Dependents to Work
Rather that overtly state his overall plan for drastically cutting the HASA caseload, it seems that HRA Commissioner Robert Doar prefers to slip major HASA policy changes out in news stories piece by piece. They’re often covered up by other verbiage that you have to pick through to find. It’s like using ketchup to cover the taste of rotting meat.
Doar has served up steak again. Last week, AIDS activists learned that HASA “is also introducing work requirements for the 1,300 able-bodied adult dependents, most of them adult children of AIDS patients,” as scribbled in a larger piece by Kay S. Hymowitz for City Journal, the “news” magazine published by the right-wing think tank Manhattan Institute.
…Posted on April 19, 2012 at 6:19 pm
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