Expanding medicaid coverage for early treatment of hiv-positive persons and the implications for poverty reduction\ Gabriel Tourek

• Main Author: Tourek, Gabriel (Author)
• Format: Book
• Published: 2010.
• Subjects: Conference or Workshop Item; PeerReviewed
• Online Access: Link Metadata

Since the outbreak of HIV/AIDS in the United States in the early 1980s, Congress has extended in-kind treatment benefits to HIV-positive persons under Medicaid and, more recently, Medicare AIDS Drug Assistance Programs (ADAPs). People who do become infected and who cannot afford care eventually rece...