(AP) --
States with waiting lists for their AIDS Drug Assistance
Programs, as of Dec. 9:
- - Arkansas: 5 people
- - Florida: 2,396
- - Georgia: 837
- - Montana: 14
- - North Carolina: 84
- - Ohio: 374
- - South Carolina: 298
- - Virginia: 24
- - Louisiana: 511
States that have cut their AIDS Drug Assistance Programs in other ways, as of Sept. 29.:
- - Arizona: reduced drugs covered
- - Arkansas: reduced drugs covered, lowered financial eligibility
- - Colorado: reduced drugs covered
- - Florida: reduced drugs covered
- - Georgia: reduced drugs covered, implemented medical criteria
- - Idaho: capped enrollment
- - Illinois: reduced drugs covered, instituted monthly cap on expenditures
- - Kentucky: reduced drugs covered
- - Louisiana: discontinued reimbursement of some tests
- - New Jersey: reduced drugs covered
- - North Carolina: reduced drugs covered
- - North Dakota: capped enrollment, instituted annual expenditure cap, lowered financial eligibility
- - Ohio: reduced drugs covered, lowered financial eligibility
- - South Carolina: instituted annual expenditure cap, lowered financial eligibility
- - Utah: reduced drugs covered, lowered financial eligibility
- - Virginia: reduced drugs covered
- - Washington: instituted cost sharing with patients, reduced drugs covered (for uninsured patients only)
- - Wyoming: capped enrollment, reduced drugs covered
Source: National Alliance of State and Territorial AIDS Directors
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