Other News In 2009
2009
Improving Data, Improving Care
The Ryan White HIV/AIDS Treatment Extension Act of 2009 contains implicit guidance to the HIV/AIDS Bureau (HAB) to collect client-level, or name-based, data. Grantees and service providers now complete the Ryan White HIV/AIDS Program Services Report (RSR) detailing information on all the clients served during a calendar year.
Until recently, HAB data reports summarized the clients served in the aggregate. The reports did not provide unduplicated counts of clients, thereby hampering HAB’s ability to achieve its oversight and evaluation responsibilities.
RSR data gathered over time will ultimately give HAB staff the ability to compute client trends, services provided, and clinical processes and outcomes. Clients’ service utilization can also be analyzed to assess differences related to geographic, sociodemographic, or clinical factors.
HAB’s goal is to build a client-level data reporting system that provides a clearer overview on the characteristics of the funded grantees, their service providers, and the clients served through program funds. Data will also help address the disproportionate impact of HIV in communities of color by assessing organizational capacity and service utilization in minority communities.
RSR submissions in 2009 already show promising results:
- 100 percent of grantee reports were submitted.
- 100 percent of provider reports were submitted.
- 97.9 percent of client-level data reports were submitted.
- 178 providers uploaded client-level data despite requirement to do so.
The overall goal of these efforts it to create the most targeted, tailored, and efficient approach possible thereby reducing duplication of services and improving the overall health and wellbeing of people living with HIV/AIDS. These efforts are just some of many illustrating HAB’s role as a public health authority fulfilling its mandate to treat the underserved.
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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