Paying for Your HIV/AIDS Medications
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- Patient Assistance Programs (March 8, 2010)
For people who need help paying for HIV/AIDS treatment.
From AIDS Treatment Data Network
- Needymeds.com (Regularly Updated)
This site offers help for people with no insurance to get medications; includes pharmaceutical patience assistance programs for more than 700 medications.
- Partnership for Prescription Assistance (Regularly Updated)
Helps qualifying patients without prescription drug coverage get the medicines they need for free or nearly free.
From Partnership for Prescription Assistance
- Free/Low Cost Clinics (Regularly Updated)
NeedyMeds' mission is to help people who cannot afford medicine or health case costs; and to that end, it also provides info about patient assistance programs (PAPs) and other programs.
From Needymeds.com
- Free Medications Through the New Jersey AIDS Drug Distribution Program (ADDP) (Regularly Updated)
 The Health Cost Crisis? Who Cares?! A Blog Entry by Dave R. (February 8, 2012)
"In Europe we believe that if you're sick, you have the right to receive treatment -- it's a human right. Even those relatively few cases, who can't afford the premiums each month, will never be turned away. Ways will be found to pay it back. Now I really don't know enough about the ins and outs of the U.S. system but these sorts of statistics tend to confirm the clichés and preconceptions that Europeans often have about the States."
From The Body
- 2011 Virtual Conference: Accessing and Understanding HIV/AIDS Patient Assistance Programs (October 27, 2011)
From ADAP Advocacy Association
 Money: The Biggest Challenge to Sticking With Meds (September 1, 2011)
From The Body
 7 Ways to Save Money on Meds: A Video Blog by Mark S. King (August 8, 2011)
"With all the doctor appointments and wellness activities we engage in, living with HIV/AIDS can be a full-time job. And the truth is, it doesn’t pay very well. We’ve all been feeling the pinch of tough economic times. So I hope you’ll find some savings in this new video."
From The Body
- Other Routes to HIV Drug Assistance (March 2, 2011)
In CDC HIV/Hepatitis/STD/TB Prevention News Update, from U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention
- Guide for HIV Treatment Access for Those Without ... (January 19, 2011)
From HIV Prevention Justice Alliance
- Patient Assistance and Co-Pay Programs for HIV and Viral Hepatitis Drugs (January 2011)
To read PDF, click here.
From Fair Pricing Coalition
- Merck Announces Expanded Co-Pay Assistance Program for Isentress (Raltegravir) (October 22, 2010)
Enhanced program provides assistance to people living with HIV-1 who are privately insured and have out-of-pocket co-pays.
From Merck & Co., Inc.
- ViiV Healthcare Acts to Improve Access to HIV Medicines in United States for Those Most in Need (October 12, 2010)
ViiV Healthcare expands patient assistance program, continues its patient savings card program and joins Welvista program.
To read PDF, click here.
From ViiV Healthcare
- Atripla's Co-Pay Program Now Saves More Money (September/October 2010)
To read PDF, click here.
In Positively Aware, from Test Positive Aware Network
- Pick a Card, Pick a Plan (March/April 2010)
How and where to get financial support to help pay for your meds.
To read PDF, click here.
In Positively Aware, from Test Positive Aware Network
- HIV and the Recession: Living Well in Tough Times (Winter/Spring 2010)
To read PDF, click here.
In Bulletin of Experimental Treatments for AIDS, from San Francisco AIDS Foundation
- Maker of Reyataz and Sustiva Announces Enhancements to Co-Pay Benefit Program (January 21, 2010)
From The Body
- New Assistance Program Helps HIVers Pay for Viramune (October 7, 2009)
From The Body
- IRIN Examines Report on Varying Cost of ARVs for Countries With Similar Socioeconomic Status (September 11, 2009)
In Kaiser Daily Global Health Policy Report, from Henry J. Kaiser Family Foundation
- Health Care Reform Debate Heats Up (June 2, 2009)
From Project Inform
- Reyataz and Sustiva Co-Pay Benefit Program (April 16, 2009)
If you live in the U.S., you might be eligible for a benefits program created to help people who are already insured, but still need help to pay for Reyataz or Sustiva.
From Bristol-Myers Squibb Company
- Co-Pay Price Breaks Abound in U.S. for HIV Meds; Persistence May Pay Off (April 1, 2009)
The Fair Pricing Coalition (FPC) has successfully negotiated agreements with many U.S. manufacturers of HIV meds to reduce co-pay costs. In this article, FPC provides a breakdown of each company's drug payment assistance program, as well as other prescription savings programs.
To read PDF, click here.
From Fair Pricing Coalition
- Prescription Savings Program Announces Expanded Access to Meds for Uninsured People in U.S. (March 19, 2009)
Together Rx Access, a program that makes prescription medications available at low cost to people with no insurance, is responding to the U.S. economic crisis by expanding the eligibility criteria for its program.
In U.S. News & World Report
- Together Rx Expands Eligibility Criteria, Responds to Challenging Economic Times (March 19, 2009)
From Together Rx Access
- GlaxoSmithKline Announces New Program to Provide Financial Assistance for Eligible HIV Patients in the U.S. (November 11, 2008)
If you live in the United States, use private health insurance and take Combivir (AZT/3TC), Epzicom (abacavir/3TC, Kivexa), Lexiva (fosamprenavir, Telzir) or another HIV drug made by GlaxoSmithKline, you may have a chance to save a nice chunk of change.
From GlaxoSmithKline
- Abbott Virology Patient Assistance Program Application (PDF) (August 2008)
If you are having problems paying for ritonavir (Norvir), fill out Abbott's form and perhaps you'll be able to get this medication at no cost.
From Abbott Laboratories
- 100 Questions & Answers About HIV and AIDS -- Part 4: Medical Care (2008)
An excerpt from a book by Joel Gallant, M.D., M.P.H., responding to some of the most common questions that newly diagnosed people have about HIV.
From Jones and Bartlett Publishers
- Drug Assistance From Pharmaceutical Companies for Non-HIV Medications (2007)
- Navigating the Rocky Waters of U.S. HIV/AIDS Healthcare: Patient Assistance Programs (November/December 2004)
In Positively Aware, from Test Positive Aware Network
- Community Spotlight: The Houston Buyers Club (October 2004)
To read PDF, click here.
In HIV Treatment ALERTS!, from The Center for AIDS
- Fuzeon Accelerated Simultaneous Access Program (Fuzeon ASAP) (September 2004)
[Archived Article]
A new program provides "immediate" supplies of T-20 to patients who are prescribed the drug together with another investigational drug.
From Roche Laboratories, Inc. and Trimeris, Inc.
- Patient Assistance Programs: Getting Free Drugs from the Drug Makers (Fall 2004)
To read PDF, click here.
In ACRIA Update, from AIDS Community Research Initiative of America
- Drug Company Patient Assistance Program Contact Numbers (Fall 2004)
To read PDF, click here.
In ACRIA Update, from AIDS Community Research Initiative of America
- Access Information for T-20 (Fuzeon), Atazanavir (Reyataz) and FTC (Emtriva) (October 2003)
[Archived Article]
How to get information about receiving these new HIV medications through ADAPs and Patient Assistance Programs.
To read PDF, click here.
In Project Inform Perspective, from Project Inform
- Getting HIV Drugs (July 2003)
From The Well Project
- Access to Treatment: Overview of Expanded Access and Compassionate Use Programs (July 2003)
[Archived Article]
From Project Inform
- Huge Price Variations in Generic Drugs (May 30, 2003)
[Archived Article]
In AIDS Treatment News, from AIDS Treatment News
- Nevirapine Patient Assistance Program: Model for Better Administration? (November 22, 2002)
[Archived Article]
In AIDS Treatment News, from AIDS Treatment News
- Treatment Alert: New Expanded Access Program for T-20 (Fall 2002)
[Archived Article]
To read PDF, click here.
In STEP Perspective, from Seattle Treatment Education Project
- Wisconsin HIV/AIDS Drug Reimbursement Program (May 31, 2002)
[Archived Article]
In CDC HIV/Hepatitis/STD/TB Prevention News Update, from U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention
- Expanded Access Program for Atazanavir (May 2002)
[Archived Article]
To read PDF, click here.
In What's New, from Project Inform
- First HIV Drug Co-Op Cuts Costs (April 2, 2002)
[Archived Article]
In CDC HIV/Hepatitis/STD/TB Prevention News Update, from U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention
- Patient Assistance Programs (PAPs) (December 2001)
[Archived Article]
In WISE Words, from Project Inform
- Generic Drugs: Saving Money at the Pharmacy (April 1998)
[Archived Article]
From U.S. Federal Trade Commission
- Paying for Treatment
[Archived Article]
From HIV Coalition (HIVCO)
- How to Get Free Medications
[Archived Article]
From Affording Care
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