AHF Will Supply $1 Million in Free AIDS Drugs to Florida Wait List Patients
AHF Pharmacy Will Supply $1 Million in Free AIDS Drugs to Patients on the Waiting List for Florida’s AIDS Drug Assistance Program—and to those 350 ADAP Patients the State Will Disenroll from its ADAP program. AHF Pharmacy will Supply at No Cost a Five-Day Supply of Lifesaving HIV Drugs for Patients until they Enroll In and Receive Refills from Private Drug Company Patient Assistance Programs
2,396 People—More than Half of the 4,543 Currently on ADAP Waiting Lists Nationwide—are in Florida, Which also Has the Third Highest HIV Population in the Nation
FT. LAUDERDALE, Fla.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--As the State of Florida grapples with a budget shortfall that has crippled its AIDS Drug Assistance Program (ADAP) and forced the state to potentially disenroll 350 Florida patients already on ADAP as well as place nearly 2,400 low-income Floridians on waiting lists to access lifesaving medications, AIDS Healthcare Foundation (AHF) has proposed an innovative plan to help state health officials and displaced HIV/AIDS patients bridge the transition to private patient assistance programs run by the major pharmaceutical companies. AHF, through its AHF Pharmacy, will supply up to $1 million in free AIDS drugs to those disenrolled and wait listed HIV/AIDS patients on medication therapy as those patients wait for their medications to be delivered from private patient assistance programs. This will avoid any interruption in lifesaving medication therapy while patients transition onto patient assistance programs.
“Through AHF’s offer to fill prescriptions for medications to bridge supply gaps for any displaced Florida ADAP patients, we hope to help ease the state’s AIDS drug crisis and get vulnerable Florida AIDS patients off waiting lists and back on to lifesaving antiretroviral treatment”
“Through AHF’s offer to fill prescriptions for medications to bridge supply gaps for any displaced Florida ADAP patients, we hope to help ease the state’s AIDS drug crisis and get vulnerable Florida AIDS patients off waiting lists and back on to lifesaving antiretroviral treatment,” said Michael Weinstein, President of AIDS Healthcare Foundation. “We have initially proposed offering five-day supplies of medications to patients, which should be ample time for private drug companies to confirm patient eligibility for their respective patient assistance programs, or time enough to spur greater efficiency among those drug companies whose enrollment protocols may be unnecessarily cumbersome.”
