Georgia and other southeastern states received the second largest funding allocation from the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services under the AIDS Drugs Assistance Program as part of an application for assistance the state filed in December.
The Georgia Department of Public Health is using the funds to help alleviate the state's waiting list, which currently has about 1,732 names. About $10,800 is required to treat each patient annually.
Georgia public health officials are also working to move low-income persons living with HIV and AIDS to alternate funding sources that provide similar medication similar, as well as physician care.
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