ADAP crisis national call-in alert, starting June 14.As of June 7, 2004, 1,629 people are on ADAP ADAP AIDS Drug Assistance Program ADAP Alcohol and Drug Awareness Program ADAP Agricultural Development in the American Pacific ADAP Autodiscovery/Autopurge ADAP Airport Development Aid Program ADAP Advanced Digital Antenna Production waiting lists in 11 states due to underfunding of the program, according to according to prep. 1. As stated or indicated by; on the authority of: according to historians. 2. In keeping with: according to instructions. 3. the National Association of State and Territorial AIDS Directors. These are people who have been prescribed pre·scribe v. pre·scribed, pre·scrib·ing, pre·scribes v.tr. 1. To set down as a rule or guide; enjoin. See Synonyms at dictate. 2. To order the use of (a medicine or other treatment). treatment for HIV HIV (Human Immunodeficiency Virus), either of two closely related retroviruses that invade T-helper lymphocytes and are responsible for AIDS. There are two types of HIV: HIV-1 and HIV-2. HIV-1 is responsible for the vast majority of AIDS in the United States. and have no other way to pay for it, so most of them are going without. The program needs a $217 million dollar increase lot fiscal 2005 to end the crisis next year--plus an emergency appropriation The designation by the government or an individual of the use to which a fund of money is to be applied. The selection and setting apart of privately owned land by the government for public use, such as a military reservation or public building. for the current fiscal year to treat people on waiting lists, beginning now and continuing through March 31, 2005. (ADAP's fiscal year is delayed six months from the Federal fiscal year, which begins in October 2004, to allow contracts to be completed.) This year, for the first time, the new money in April could not treat the people who had been on the waiting lists from the year before. The good news is that 25 U.S. senators so far have signed a Dear Colleague letter A dear colleague letter is a letter sent by one member of a legislative body to all fellow members, usually describing a new bill and asking for cosponsors or seeking to influence the recipients' votes on an issue. asking for the fiscal 2005 increase and the emergency appropriation. The SAVE ADAP committee of the AIDS Treatment Activist Coalition (ATAC ATAC Arimidex, tamoxifen and combination therapy ) and others are beginning a summer grassroots action campaign with a "call Congress week" during June 14-18. But calls after the 18th will help as well, since the House of Representatives is expected to begin deciding on ADAP and other AIDS funding levels in the next few weeks. Congress needs to hear more from voters who care about the program. Information on how to help will be posted at http://www.atac-usa.org (click on the Save ADAP Committee). Information about ADAP in your state is at http://www.atdn.org (click on The Access Project). For important action alerts on this and other AIDS issues, sign up for Project Inform's Treatment Action Network (TAN). For more information on TAN, see http ://www.projectinform.org/org/policy.html. An alert explaining background you should know will be posted at http:/www.atac-usa.org. That site is now being revised, however, so until the alert is available there we have posted a copy at http://www.aidsnews.org/adap. |
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