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Chicago Tribune - October 16, 2000
AIDServe Indiana helps about 800 of the more than 5,000 people with AIDS or HIV across the state. Clients qualify for assistance based on income.
During the past year, the Department of Health has received numerous complaints about AIDServe from clients and providers, according to a report in Sunday's edition of The Indianapolis Star.
"There is an argument that we're all responsible here," says Mark St. John, AIDServe's president. "I think we all contributed to it in lots of different ways here, not with maliciousness or anything else. It just kind of happened."
The State Department of Health, AIDServe's main source of funding, is trying to find out exactly what happened. AIDServe has an annual budget of nearly $5 million, which comes from state and federal taxes, donations and fundraising events.
In Lake, Porter and LaPorte Counties, doctors, dentists and pharmacists have been unwilling to work for free, said Tammy Morris, executive director of the Aliveness Project.
"We have lost many providers because of this, which means clients do not receive services, and it is really hard to develop trust with new providers," she said.
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