Groups battle to fund costly new AIDS drugs.

Reports on the increasing costs of protease inhibitors used to treat AIS. Efforts of AIDS advocacy groups in the United States to battle for additional public money to cover the drugs; Preparation by health maintenance organizations (HMO) for increases in their AIDS drug budgets; Optimism that the drugs will reduce the total cost of treating people with AIDS and HIV in the long run. INSET: The high cost of AIDS..