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AIDS Drugs for Low-Income Patients

Federal money will help get HIV and AIDS drugs to North Carolinians waiting for financial help.

Leoneda Inge: There are about 280 HIV and AIDS patients in the state on a waiting list to help pay for life-sustaining drugs. The state received three-million-dollars from the Health Resources and Service Administration to go toward funding the Aids Drug Assistance Program. Lisa Hazirjian heads the North Carolina Aids Action Network.

Lisa Hazirjian: I think really the most exciting thing about all of this, is that we're starting to see a commitment of public resources to bringing an end to the HIV epidemic here in North Carolina, across the south and throughout the country.

There are 35-thousand people in North Carolina living with HIV and AIDS. More than six-thousand people rely on HIV and AIDS assistance programs to help pay for needed drugs.

Leoneda Inge is WUNC’s race and southern culture reporter, the first public radio journalist in the South to hold such a position. She also is co-host of the podcast Tested and host of the special podcast series, PAULI. Leoneda is the recipient of numerous awards from AP, RTDNA and NABJ. She’s been a reporting fellow in Berlin and Tokyo. You can follow her on Twitter @LeonedaInge.
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