Puerto Rico’s AIDS Care in Disarray Over Funds
Tagged: Doctor, Puerto RicoPosted on: June 5th, 2007“The disarray in treatment reflects a stew of problems. An overstretched health care budget is accentuated by rivalries between the commonwealth and the San Juan city governments, which run separate AIDS programs.
But federal officials and many local doctors say the main culprit is the island’s poor management of the available money provided for AIDS care under the Ryan White Act, amounting to $53 million last year. Clinics have not received drugs on time, and private groups that assist AIDS patients are often reimbursed six months late or more, causing some to cut services or even shut down.”
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