Other News In 2007
Previous Centers for Disease Control and Prevention estimates appear to have understated HIV incidence in the United States by 14,000 to 20,000 infections per year. New estimates put HIV incidence at 55,000 to 60,000 annually.1
2007
New Policies Produce Waves of Change
The year 2007 was one of monumental change. The Ryan White Comprehensive AIDS Resource Emergency (CARE) Act was renamed the Ryan White HIV/AIDS Treatment Modernization Act—a change that reflects the fact that addressing HIV/AIDS is not a one-time emergency but an ongoing crisis.
The legislation’s name change also served to reemphasize the importance of treatment as a Ryan White HIV/AIDS Program priority. Under the newly revamped law, Ryan White grantees that receive funds under Parts A, B, and C (formerly Titles I, II, and III) must demonstrate that they are spending at least 75 percent of the funds on “core medical services.” This requirement is designed to ensure that the majority of Ryan White funds are being spent in a way that directly affects the health of Ryan White consumers, reinforcing the status of the Ryan White HIV/AIDS Program as—first and foremost—a healthcare program for people living with HIV/AIDS.
Perhaps the biggest change presented by the new legislation has been the creation of an entirely new program—Transitional Grant Areas (TGAs). The five new areas represented by this program (all with populations of 50,000 or more) have reached an unhappy milestone: Between 1,000 and 1,999 AIDS cases have been reported in their municipality in the past 5 years. But there is hope.
HRSA is providing grants to new TGAs through Part A of the Ryan White HIV/AIDS Treatment Modernization Act to organizations like Friends for Life in Memphis, Tennessee, and Nashville Cares in Nashville, Tennessee. This funding will help ensure that clients have better access to the life-saving treatments they need. Without treatment, people living with HIV/AIDS would not be able to live healthy and productive lives. And without providers, treatment would be just another word.
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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