Other News In 1988
Researchers discover that almost all cases of HIV infection ultimately lead to AIDS.1
1988
HRSA Institutes Pediatric AIDS Service Grants
Funding Set at $5 Million for First Year
In the first years of HIV/AIDS, some believed that perinatal transmission was not a risk factor for HIV. In his blockbuster book, And the Band Played On, Randy Shilts documents a meeting in which a clinician reporting HIV infection among his infant patients was regarded with suspicion. That suspicion soon disappeared as it became abundantly—and tragically—clear that perinatal transmission was, indeed, possible. Moreover, it was already costing lives.
Pediatric AIDS Service Demonstration Grants were awarded beginning in 1988, and the program was funded from 1988 through 1993. During its life, the program helped grantees in hard-hit cities build the Nation’s first HIV/AIDS care programs targeting children and their families.
Demonstration grants were informed by work both inside and outside the Federal Government, such as the 1987 U.S. Intergovernmental Task Force on AIDS Health Care Delivery and the Surgeon General’s Workshop on Children With HIV Infection and Their Families.
The grants responded to many harsh realities. HIV-positive children were most often born to severely overburdened families. Most women and children infected with AIDS lacked health insurance. Some infants were abandoned in hospitals. Few foster care arrangements were available for babies who were being orphaned by the epidemic.
Pediatric AIDS Service Demonstration Grants made a whole new level of care available to families—especially to children. They successfully addressed the unique needs of women and children and gave the Nation a model for developing programs in new locations. Ultimately, these grants became the framework for Title IV (Part D) of the CARE Act for women, children, infants, and youth.
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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