AIDS and HIV Therapy

Access to antiretroviral treatment improving for poor, minority patients

Published in AIDS Weekly, June 24th, 2002

by Michael Greer, senior medical writer - Access to powerful antiretroviral HIV treatment has improved for disadvantaged patients, researchers in the United States argue.

Jeanne C. Keruly and colleagues at Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine in Baltimore and the Health Resources and Services Administration in Rockville, Maryland conducted a study to "assess sociodemographic and medical insurer factors associated with receipt of highly active antiretroviral therapy (HAART)."

Although socioeconomic factors still influence treatment options, the benefits of HAART are becoming more accesible to poor and minority patients, Keruly and coauthors...

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Source: AIDS Weekly (2002-06-24)

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