Other News In 1989
1989
HRSA Funding Moves Outside Epicenters
In fiscal year 1989, HRSA appropriated a total of $3.9 million in Low Prevalence Planning Grants to 22 grantees. In retrospect, this level of funding may seem small; however, the Low Prevalence Planning Grants were among the first AIDS-specific resources in some locations. And in many parts of the country, the grants set the stage for building a care continuum outside the large urban epicenters where HIV/AIDS first emerged.
Soon after AIDS emerged, it became abundantly clear that this disease would literally know no boundaries. It spread beyond the big cities to smaller cities, towns, and rural communities across the country. Moreover, many people living with HIV/AIDS moved home to these areas to seek the support and care of family and friends.
Low Prevalence Planning Grants were among the first resources offering help to States and medium-sized cities to assist in planning and building their response to the epidemic. These grants, along with the AZT Drug Reimbursement and the Home and Community-Based Care programs, laid much of the groundwork for what was to become Title II (now Part B) of the CARE Act.
The grants helped plan for community-based systems of care providing a range of services for HIV-infected people in grantee communities, including appropriate alternatives to inpatient hospital care. In return, States and cities funded under this grant program were required to
- assess needs and estimate resources required,
- develop plans for efficient use of healthcare resources,
- create coalitions of State and community organizations to plan for services, and
- develop and submit plans to HRSA to implement the desired system of services.
But the projects funded under these grants reached beyond grantee communities. In keeping with a rich tradition of knowledge sharing at HRSA, they also served as planning models for other communities with significant HIV-positive populations.
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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