"With AIDS Care"

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"With AIDS Care"

New York Times (12/22/92), P. A20
Homenick, Maureen A.

Abstract: Waiting for legislative approval for efforts to thwart the spread of tuberculosis among all infected individuals will only delay and divert initiatives to serve those people who directly seek help from clinics, writes Maureen Homenick, executive director of the Momentum Project in New York City. Tougher measures to fight the rampant spread of tuberculosis are requested by a panel reporting to the United Hospital Fund in the New York Times on Nov. 30. However, one of the most immediate and effective opportunities to fight TB is being dangerously overlooked. Due to the likelihood that HIV-positive people and other high-risk groups will develop active cases of TB, it appears that the most effective approach is to integrate programs directly observed therapy, education, and prevention into current service programs for those individuals. Several well-established community-based groups serving HIV-infected clients are willing to administer these programs and already attract a constituency that is infected or at risk. Those needing assistance could obtain it while using other services that treat the whole person and include incentives that meet other, basic needs. City and state resources could be more effectively used in such programs that monitor treatment, concludes Homenick.

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