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Author Topic: Letter to President Obama  (Read 3666 times)

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Offline edfu

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Letter to President Obama
« on: February 06, 2011, 03:36:47 am »
From the ADAP Advocacy Association and the Emergency ADAP Summit attendees in Fort Lauderdale last weekend:

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January 30, 2011

To: President Barack Obama
The White House
Washington, D.C. 20502

Mr. Jeffrey Crowley, Director
Office of National AIDS Policy
The White House
Washington, D.C. 20502
(202)456-4533
AIDSpolicy@who. eop.gov

Dear President Obama and Mr. Crowley;

We the undersigned have been together all this weekend, January 29-30, in response to the AIDS Drug Assistance Program (ADAP) emergency in Florida, and the ADAP crisis nationwide.

As we write, there is still uncertainty about whether 10,000 Floridians with HIV and AIDS whose lifeline is ADAP, will shortly be cut off from their medication.

What is certain is that unless an agreement can be reached for a proposed once-only rescue by the pharmaceutical industry, Florida's ADAP funding will run out in less than two weeks, i.e. by February 10th. And even if there is temporary resolution, without adequate new funding there will be recurring shortfalls.

What is also certain is that;

As of last Friday, in ten states nationwide, 5,779 qualified HIV/AIDS patients in need are on waiting lists for access to ADAP medications.

Nineteen states and territories have severely tightened enrollment criteria and reduced drug formularies.

Between 2009 and 2010, monthly users of ADAPs rose an unprecedented 80%, and continue to rise due in large measure to the "perfect storm" of the downward spiraling economy with loss of jobs and health insurance, plus rising drug prices.

State budget deficits preclude addressing the accelerating need, while the federal Ryan White ADAP contribution has shrunk from approximately 70 percent to 50 percent of the overall national ADAP budget in recent years.

Research has shown that earlier treatment prolongs life, preserves productive individual health, and protects public health through lower viral counts and reduced disease transmission.

Pharmaceutical industry price accommodations and a $25 million HHS ADAP supplement in 2010, though deeply appreciated, as well as failed House and Senate legislative efforts, have left a current and ever-increasing shortfall of close to $100 million.

The President's National HIV/AIDS Strategy, published July 13, 2010, calls for;

1) reducing the number of people who become infected with HIV;
2) increasing access to care and optimizing health outcomes for people living with HIV; and
3) reducing HIV-related health disparities.

None of these overarching goals can be approached while failure looms over the national Ryan White ADAP Program, especially between now and 2014 when Health Care Reform is more fully implemented.

It is no exaggeration to say that Persons Living With, and Affected By HIV and AIDS are fearful and desperate in the face of government gridlock that has thwarted every constructive solution to the ADAP crisis.

We implore you to take the lead and not to rest, until there is secure and sufficient funding - immediate and ongoing - to avert a Florida ADAP meltdown and national ADAP insolvency, to achieve the goals of the National AIDS Strategy, and most importantly, to prevent needless suffering and death of Persons Living With HIV and AIDS in the United States.

Sincerely,

[End
"No one will ever be free so long as there are pestilences."--Albert Camus, "The Plague"

"Mankind can never be free until the last brick in the last church falls on the head of the last priest."--Voltaire

 


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