Other News In 2008
2008
Retaining People in Care Through Re-Entry Programs
The rate of incarceration among people living with HIV disease has long been alarming: 1 in 4 people with HIV have been in a correctional setting at some point in their lives.1 HRSA’s committed to addressing this problem has been longstanding. In 2008, HRSA’s AIDS Education and Training Center released a series of educational videos on HIV/AIDS care in correctional settings and HRSA’s Special Projects of National Significance continued their work on the Enhancing Linkages to HIV Primary Care and Services in Jail Settings Initiative.
Many of the same psychosocial and socioeconomic risk factors associated with incarceration, including homelessness, mental illness, lack of insurance coverage, low education level, poverty, and substance abuse, are associated with HIV infection.2,3,4,5,6 It comes as no surprise, then, that inmates suffer disproportionately from a wide range of infectious diseases7 as well as chronic diseases. Without improved health and re-entry programs, these conditions will only worsen.
Research shows that increased testing and treatment of communicable diseases, such as HIV and tuberculosis, in the jail setting might assist with disease control in the greater community. Many inmates have limited access to health care before incarceration and are thus less likely to have received screening and treatment for diseases of concern to public health officials.8,9 Incarceration can therefore play an unlikely role as a health care intervention.10
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Toward Passage - 1986
HRSA Debuts First
AIDS Program - 1987
AZT Reimbursement
Program Launches - 1988
Pediatric AIDS
Grants Begins - 1989
HRSA Funds Move
Outside Epicenters - 1990
CARE Act Is Adopted,
Named for Indiana Teen -
The Early Years - 1991
HRSA Awards First
CARE Act Grants - 1992
Training Creates Access
to Expert Care - 1993
Largest Epicenters
Now Number 25 - 1994
AZT Is Found to Protect
Newborns From HIV - 1995
The Age of Combination
Therapy Arrives -
Adapting to Change - 1996
CARE Act
Reauthorized - 1997
Programs Unite
Under One Umbrella - 1998
Administration Addresses
Epidemic in Minorities - 1999
Minority AIDS Initiative
is Launched - 2000
Reauthorization Focuses
on People Not in Care -
A New Millennium - 2001
HRSA Publishes Treatment
Guide for Women - 2002
CARE Act Expertise
Goes Global - 2003
Global HIV/AIDS
Program Begins - 2004
HRSA Addresses
Severity of Need - 2005
New Treatment
for Addiction -
New Approaches - 2006
The CARE Act
Makeover - 2007
New Policies—
Waves of Change - 2008
Continuing Work
on Re-entry Programs - 2009
Improving
Performance Data - 2010
20 Years and
a Legacy of Care -
The Road Ahead - 2011
30 Years of AIDS:
Honoring the Past,
Looking Toward the Future - 2012
Care is Prevention