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Local Government with Kyle Whitmire
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Magic City Marketplace
Wilco Brings The Whole Love to Birmingham
John Archibald on Jeffco's Occupational Tax
Carsen, Ott on All Things Education Alabama
Bike Sharing in Alabama
Local Government with John Archibald
Rebuilding After Tornadoes: Tuscaloosa and Hackleburg
Tornado Mental Health Update
Hackleburg Tornado: Then and Now
Coverage of Alabama's Immigration Law HB56
Birmingham's Banditos Have New Music
INTERVIEW: State Schools Chief on Birmingham Investigation
Fight Continues over Shepherd Bend Mine
Carsen, Ott on All Things Alabama Education
Alabama Author's Family Connection to the Titanic
News Features Archive

90.3 WBHM | Birmingham --Thousands of Gulf Coast residents are living in shelters all across the country -- many preparing to start new lives wherever they land. That's easier for some more than others.

For AIDS patients, evacuation and relocation is about more than just finding food and housing, it's also about having access to medication they can't live without.

Here in Alabama AIDS agencies are trying to figure out just how they'll accommodate so many new HIV/AIDS patients needing help while still providing services to Alabamians who rely on them.

AIDS Alabama Executive Director Kathie Hiers says her agency has taken a number of calls over the last few days from individuals with HIV/AIDS relocated from the Gulf . She says her staff is already stretched thin working on Alabama cases, but they're going to do all they can to help the evacuees.

A few of the things they're doing include administering AIDS tests for those who need documentation of their illness, moving as many evacuees as they can into AIDS housing and helping them get their medications.