Paying for Your HIV/AIDS 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)
- 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.
 Don't Break the Bank: Assistance Programs Can Help Pay for Meds (March/April 2013)
To read PDF, click here.
In Positively Aware, from Test Positive Aware Network
 Study: Generics Could Cut Costs of HIV Treatment (January 15, 2013)
In CDC HIV/Hepatitis/STD/TB Prevention News Update, from U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention
 Simplified Application Form Now Available for All PAPs (November/December 2012)
To read PDF, click here.
In Positively Aware, from Test Positive Aware Network
 Financial Stress: Impact on HIV Adherence, HCV and Prescribing Patterns (October 30, 2012)
In CATIE News, from Canadian AIDS Treatment Information Exchange
- Common Application for HIV Patient Assistance Program Expedites Application Process for Lifesaving Drugs (September 12, 2012)
From U.S. Department of Health and Human Services
- Stribild Included in Co-Pay and Assistance Programs (September 10, 2012)
In Positively Aware, from Test Positive Aware Network
 Website Offers Access to HIV Meds for Uninsured (September/October 2012)
To read PDF, click here.
In Positively Aware, from Test Positive Aware Network
 Financial Considerations of HIV (Video) (Posted: August 2012)
"Many times it is easy to only think about the health issues related to HIV but there is another issue: How to pay for living with HIV. Medicine, labs, doctor visits, all have to be paid for somehow. This video just covers this briefly."
From TheBody.com
- Getting HIV Drugs (May 2012)
From The Well Project
- Paying for Your Meds: It Doesn't Have to Break the Bank (March/April 2012)
To read PDF, click here.
In Positively Aware, from Test Positive Aware Network
 HIV Co-Pay and Patient Assistance Programs (March/April 2012)
To read PDF, click here.
In Positively Aware, from Test Positive Aware Network
- The "Plan B" Question (January/February 2012)
Is the HIV community prepared for when the Affordable Care Act fails?
In Positively Aware, from Test Positive Aware Network
 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 TheBody.com
- 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 TheBody.com
 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 TheBody.com
- Abbott Virology Patient Assistance Program Application (PDF) (July 2011)
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
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