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Jagged Little Pills

Happy Feet

Bunny Business




Playing the Percentages

Soul Survivors

B Careful

In the Running

Seeing Double

Write of Passage

Salad Daze

From Here to Paternity

Summer Share




Papa, Can You Hear Me?

Outside Chance

Send Us the Bill

Climb Every Mountain

Farewell Tour

Hot Dates-June 2007

Agent Provocateur

Mixed (Up) Media

Another AIDS Movie for Philadelphia

Say What?!-June 2007

Attention, K-Y Shoppers

The Next Best Thing to Being There

Getting Crafty

Baggage Claim




Editor's Letter-June 2007

Mailbox-June 2007

Catch of the Month—June 2007


Most Talked About

Has George W. Bush “Done More” to Fight AIDS Than Any Other President? (19)

Does Undetectable Equal Uninfectious? (18)

Are Millions Becoming HIV Positive Because Of ACT UP Paris? (Blog) (15)

Service Interruption: Jeremiah Johnson (12)

Stealing HIV Meds to Mix With Marijuana (10)

Most Popular Lessons

The HIV Life Cycle

Herpes Simplex Virus

Human Papilloma Virus (HPV)

Shingles

Syphilis & Neurosyphilis

Treatments for Opportunistic Infections (OIs)


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June 2007


Send Us the Bill

by Lucile Scott

Congress vs. better health care for positive people

In March, Democratic Senator and presidential hopeful Hillary Clinton (NY), with Republican Senator Gordon Smith (OR), reintroduced the Early Treatment for HIV Act (ETHA). The bill was first launched in 1999 by current House Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-CA), but it failed to pass the then Republican-controlled Congress. A majority of states require that an HIV-positive person be sick enough to qualify for disability, usually meaning AIDS, before getting Medicaid. ETHA would get low-income positive people benefits from the day of diagnosis, relieving underfunded AIDS Drug Assistance Programs (ADAP). The bill was under consideration as POZ went to press. “We are cautiously optimistic,” says Robert Greenwald, director of the Treatment Access Expansion Project. “Everybody recognizes it’s cruel to have a Medicaid policy denying access to treatment that can prevent you from getting sick.” 
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