title: The dangerous financial politics of AIDS "cocktail" therapies.
abstract: Political pressures by local AIDS activists are forcing some communities to redirect limited financial resources exclusively toward new drug therapies called protease inhibitors. These expensive and often reckless decisions threaten both the financial integrity of AIDS service organizations and the health of the public. The dangerous financial politics surrounding access to the new and complicated drug therapies for AIDS threaten to bankrupt local AIDS health service, create inescapable financial and legal liabilities, and may contribute to a worsening of the AIDS epidemic, causing the elimination of essential systems of prevention and care for the highest risk populations-adolescents and minority women.
authors.affiliation: Tampa Bay Pediatric and Family AIDS Program, University of South Florida College of Public Health, Tampa, USA.
authors.forename: J
authors.initials: J
authors.lastname: Wolfson
mesh_terms: D000293:Adolescent; D019380:Anti-HIV Agents / Q000008:administration & dosage / Q000191:economics*; D002648:Child; D003254:Consumer Advocacy; D004359:Drug Therapy, Combination; D005260:Female; D005431:Florida; D015658:HIV Infections / Q000188:drug therapy*; D015276:Health Care Rationing; D006801:Humans; D007231:Infant, Newborn; D008297:Male; D011057:Politics; D011247:Pregnancy; D011480:Protease Inhibitors / Q000008:administration & dosage / Q000191:economics*; D014481:United States
chemical_list: D019380:Anti-HIV Agents; D011480:Protease Inhibitors