WAITING LIST, A NATIONAL PROBLEM

Half the year has gone by and the waiting list for ADAP grows and grows. Most people are saying throw more money in the pot and that will solve the problem. Well I am not one of those people, I might be almost as liberal as you can get but I don't think doing the same thing that has failed us in the past will work in our future. I am of the opinion that we all have to make sacrifices in order to have an impact on the lives of those living with HIV and those yet to be diagnosed with the disease. The tax payers are doing their part in this struggle for survival and I commend them for their efforts. Now is the time for industry, especially the pharmaceutical industry, to step up to the plate.

I went to Washington with a group of inovative, forward thinking individuals who have an idea to challenge the pharmaceutical companies to take some of the burden of combating the ADAP waiting list problem. You can contact AIDS Healthcare Foundations for details about their proposal, but it is radically different from the status quo that it caused many lawmakers, and other functionaries to pause. Now is the time to put pressure on those who make the discisions for us, to do something to address this problem that make good fiscal and moral sense.

Don't wait for the other person to do the right thing, it starts with you and you are the catalyst that starts the chain reaction that gets the problems solved . Be incouraged, be brave and be bold and demand something be done, right now, to help those that have no voice of their own.