Vancouver—BC government is considering aggressive new methods of luring the province's most hard to reach HIV patients into treatment, including paying the poor and enticing drug addicts with incentives linked to recovery programs.

The strategy is aimed at corralling highly vulnerable people with HIV, including addicts, homeless, the mentally ill and some who are aboriginal. Many aren't taking life-saving, anti-retroviral drugs, which have proved to slow AIDS symptoms and cut the risk of spreading the disease. More >>