For nearly 20 years the Iowa Department of Public Health has provided HIV/AIDS prevention services to people at risk of infection across more than a half dozen cities.
The news for HIV care and treatment funding looked particularly bleak by August 2011, when the waiting list for AIDS Drug Assistance Programs (ADAPs) topped 8,600 people and the government's near-miss on a federal credit default resulted in legislation that could be devastating to low income people who are living with HIV/AIDS.
The world has well-embraced antiretroviral treatment (ART) for the prevention of HIV transmission between women and their newborn babies through transmission during pregnancy or nursing. And these strategies have proven to be a huge success.
