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Ryan White Care Act: Opportunities to Enhance Funding Equity

T-HEHS-00-150 Published: Jul 11, 2000. Publicly Released: Jul 11, 2000.
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Pursuant to a congressional request, GAO discussed ways to distribute Ryan White Comprehensive AIDS Resources Emergency (CARE) Act funds to states and localities, focusing on the: (1) potential for distributing funds on the basis of counts of persons with human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) infection in each geographic area rather than on counts of only persons whose disease has progressed to acquired immunodeficiency syndrome (AIDS); (2) differences in funding for states with and without an eligible metropolitan area (EMA); and (3) current effect of the hold-harmless provision adopted in the 1996 reauthorization, when the method of counting living AIDS cases replaced the practice of counting cumulative AID cases.

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AIDSDiscretionary grantsEligibility criteriastate relationsGrant administrationGrants to statesHealth care servicesMedicaidReporting requirementsState-administered programsStatutory lawSupplemental security incomeMedicare