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6000 Florida AIDS Patients Will Have Care Reduced

Published in AIDS Weekly, January 14th, 2002

A special Medicaid program for 6000 of the state's sickest AIDS patients is facing a $10 million cut, nearly half its funding.

Project AIDS Care is losing its funding as part of the more than $1 billion cut from the state budget. The program was designed to save the state money by allowing poor patients with full-blown AIDS to continue living, and to die, in their own homes, rather than in nursing homes or hospitals.

Officials with hospice groups and other agencies contend the reductions are shortsighted and likely will force more patients into institutions, costing more in the long run.

"I'm just at a complete loss. I am...

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