THE TRANSFORMATIVE POWER OF HEALTH CARE REVEALS ITSELF IN WONDROUS WAYS:

In a grandmother dressing her grandchild for school
In a middle-aged man living free of addiction
In a young person mentoring his peers.

Through the Ryan White HIV/AIDS Program, that power reaches underserved people living with HIV/AIDS by transcending barriers that often define access to health care in the United States. The program touches people who just happen to have been born on the wrong side of the poverty line: people in neighborhoods with too few health care providers or people whose most immediate emergencies may not be medical treatment but a place to sleep at night and food for their families.

THE RYAN WHITE HIV/AIDS PROGRAM REDUCES DISPARITIES IN ACCESS TO HEALTH CARE FOR MORE THAN HALF A MILLION PEOPLE EACH YEAR.

This strategic success is the result of many tactical successes: enrolling people in care—and keeping them there; paying for essential services; and reaching people whom other payors don’t.

These successes offer lessons applicable far beyond HIV/AIDS. In them lies irrefutable evidence that we can provide health care to the poor and underserved. We can build capacity in communities with a shortage of health care resources. We can reach outside our own experience to understand and respect the perspectives, experiences, and values of the host of cultures that make America what it is.

OUR SUCCESSES ARISE FROM THE POWER OF CONNECTIONS.

Our successes arise from connections among providers who piece together a vibrant fabric of health care services; connections among government agencies, local organizations, and private citizens, debating yet always collaborating to fill holes in systems of care; and connections between providers and consumers working in concert to build better care and better lives.

LEARNING the ALPHABET

RYAN WHITE HIV/AIDS PROGRAM: FY 2007 Funding and Number of Grantees
PART A	PART B	PART C
^a Includes MAI funding. ^b Recommended funding level.
Grants to Eligible Metropolitan Areas $414,344,578 22 grantees ••• Grants to Transitional Grant Areas $122,300,326 34 grantees	Care Grants to States and Territories $405,954,000 59 grantees ••• Grants to Emerging Communities $5,000,000 14 grantees ••• AIDS Drug Assistance Program Grants to States and Territories $814,798,000 59 grantees	Early Intervention Services $180,091,123^a 357 grantees ••• Capacity Development Grants $2,069,202^b 25 grantees
PART D	PART F	GLOBAL HIV/AIDS PROGRAM
Services for Women, Infants, Children, Youth, and Their Families $67,996,135^a 90 grantees	Special Projects of National Significance $21,077,598 and 50 grantees ••• AIDS Education and Training Centers $33,177,624 and 15 grantees ••• Dental Programs: Reimbursement Program $9,198,395 and 65 recipients Community-Based Dental Partnership Program $3,319,803 and 12 grantees ••• Minority AIDS Initiative (MAI) Part A: $42,041,430 and 56 grantees Part B: $6,739,600 and 30 grantees Part C: $53,863,145 and 205 grantees Part D: $17,073,812 and 59 grantees Part D Youth: $1,430,541 and 10 grantees Part F AETC: $8,500,000 and 12 grantees	Implements the international portfolio of the President’s Emergency Plan for AIDS Relief (PEPFAR in collaboration with other U.S. agencies) ••• Supports organizations around the world in their efforts to - Strengthen clinical systems - Develop human resources for health - Develop capacity - Deliver HIV care and treatment ••• Funded through the PEPFAR legislation: $15 billion over a 5-year period from 2004 to 2009.

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