Earlier this week, the Kaiser Family Foundation and the National Alliance of State and Territorial AIDS Directors (NASTAD) released their 12th annual National ADAP Monitoring Project report outlining changes to state-run AIDS Drug Assistance Programs (ADAP), which help low-income people living with HIV access vital medications.

The report is based on surveys taken in all 50 states in addition to the District of Columbia, United States territories and associated jurisdictions. The report notes that the number of people currently participating in ADAP is at its highest level in 12 years; 146,000 people were enrolled in the program in 2007.

According to the report, as of March 2008, Montana was the only state that had an ADAP waiting list; three people in the state are awaiting HIV health care. One year prior, in March of 2007, four states had ADAP waiting lists; then, a total of 571 people were waiting for ADAP services.