Chapter 20: Social Work, New York State AIDS Centers,
and Special Needs Plans
Eli Camhi
Social workers have been on the front line serving the HIV-infected and -affected community since the very beginning of the epidemic. In New York City, from the mid-1980s through the mid-1990s, most AIDS cases were first encountered in hospitals. Hospital social workers, traditionally employed as
Unpublished Letter to the New York Times
Thursday, September 7, 2006
Letter To Editor:
Dr. Zuger is right to expect more for her patients. For Medicaid recipients in New York the solution is much closer than Bill Gates’s money – HIV Special Needs Plans (SNPs).
More than 10 years ago the New York State Department of Health’s AIDS Institute anticipated the need for