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IOM Wants New Federal Program

Brian Vastag

JAMA. 2004;292:161-162.

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A new 10-year, $7 billion federal program would cut the premature death rate from HIV and AIDS by 56% and save some 20 000 lives, according to an analysis from the Institute of Medicine (IOM). Patients who now fall through the seams of the patchwork, state-run AIDS Drug Assistance Program (ADAP) would receive standard-of-care treatment under the plan recommended in the IOM report "Public Financing and Delivery of HIV/AIDS Care: Securing the Legacy of Ryan White" (available at http://www.iom.edu).

Of the approximately 950 000 individuals infected with HIV in the United States, about half receive regular medical care.

Each state and US territory administers its own ADAP with funds from federal, state, and private and nonprofit sources. Designed as a source of treatment of last resort for patients with inadequate insurance, ADAPs serve about 30% (136 000) of individuals living with HIV/AIDS in the United States who receive regular . . . [Full Text of this Article]