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Delivering HIV care for people who have nowhere else to turn
An HIV lifeline to fill gaps in care for a population with few resources and many needs.
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Half live below the federal poverty level
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Nearly one-third have no insurance of any kind.
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A population engaged in their care as decision makers, as staff, as partners.
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Part of a revolution in care to take part in their health and in living
Like Brian Datcher from New Haven, Connecticut, planning council member, outreach worker for gay men of color
Ryan White brought me to a place where I am well and can give back.
Positively living in Birmingham, Alabama. Long term survivors help breat down stigma through their portaits in the waiting room of the St. George's clinic.
They provide courage and inspriration to new clients.
Over half a million people cared for each year by a national network of agencies, among them
Unity Health Care, Washington D.C.
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University of Utah Outreach Clinic. Serving a thousand out on the Salt Lake City Wasatch front
across hundreds of miles
Ryan White is part of great accomplishments in HIV care.
ADAPs delivering medications and managing costs, training HIV clinicians, improving quality,
crafting models of care, and the planning of cities and states to guide our work.
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It began a quarter-century ago: an epidemic of stigma, shame, poverty, and death.
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But it set in motion the best in people. Volunteers became programs. Ideas became reality.
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Hundreds of thousands still have great needs.
But they have you.
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