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Article: Growing AIDS Cases Overburden New York City
- Article from:
- Xinhua News Agency
- Article date:
- November 22, 1995
CopyrightCopyright 1995 Xinhua English Newswire. Provided by ProQuest LLC. (Hide copyright information)
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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 ...