HIV/AIDS
Orlando Nurses to Crist: Don't Cut AIDS Services, Says AHF
Published in AIDS Weekly, July 9th, 2007
A coalition of physicians, nurses, social workers, concerned community members, and Florida HIV/AIDS patients, will participate in a protest and rally on Thursday, June 28th at 12:00 Noon at Orlando City Hall. The group is protesting recent changes to Florida Medicaid's HIV/AIDS programs that threaten to negatively impact nearly 8,000 people living with HIV/AIDS and their families. The destructive changes include a cut in nursing staff statewide from 70 nurse care managers to only 16 field nurses-a 77% reduction in nurse to patient ratio-for the state's low-income HIV/AIDS population. The coalition will ask Governor Crist to "Have a Heart and to "Be the Governor for People with AIDS." Over...
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Source: AIDS Weekly (2007-07-09)
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