Article: Growing AIDS Cases Overburden New York City

Rapid growth of AIDS cases is so overburdening the New York City administration that it has decided to partially shift the service work for AIDS patients to community organizations.

New York City established the Division of AIDS Service in 1987 to provide extensive services to people with AIDS, including providing case-workers to help obtain government assistance. At present, there are 18,000 people on the division's caseload with a diagnosis of AIDS or advanced HIV, with an additional 7,000 expected to seek help in the next three years.

The division has budgeted 28.5 million U.S. dollars this year for the work. Although the New York State and the ...

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