The Road Ahead (2011 and Beyond)
With no AIDS vaccine and no cure, the road ahead is familiar. We must continue our assault on barriers to care. We must become even more prodigious at using scarce resources wisely. And we must adapt our responses to meet challenges that were once on the horizon but are now immediately before us.
Many people living with HIV/AIDS are encountering health issues associated with middle and old age. HIV incidence among the young remains nothing less than horrifying. Worldwide, the circumstances are even more dire, and we are challenged to do our part to meet those needs as well. And on every front, the cost of health care spirals out of control.
For people who are part of the Ryan White HIV/AIDS Program community, these issues have been apparent for some time. The community has responded—and continues to respond—by revisiting and modifying policies, adapting to changes in the legislation, and finding new ways to combat an entrenched epidemic.
Continual changes in approach reflect the zeal of the Ryan White HIV/AIDS Program community to travel a road that will not be smooth. But for hundreds of thousands of people living with HIV/AIDS in the United States, it is a road that must be traveled. Because of the Ryan White HIV/AIDS Program, it can be.
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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