The Ryan White Comprehensive AIDS Resources Emergency (CARE) Act supports programs designed to increase access to care and treatment for underserved populations, reduce the need for costly inpatient care, reduce perinatal transmission, improve the health status of people with HIV disease, and improve the quality of life for those affected by the epidemic.
The CARE Act funds:
§ Care for individuals living with HIV disease:
§ Care for HIV positive mothers, children, and their families:
§ Training for clinicians who treat HIV -positive individuals:
§ The development of innovative programs that improve treatment outcomes; and
§ Technical assistance for organizations providing HIV/AIDS services across the country.
 
The Ryan White CARE Act provides primary care, treatment, and essential support services to people living with HIV/AIDS.  The services are delivered by organizations across the country that receive CARE Act funds-primarily through grants.  Each year, they reach about 533,000 underserved people, more than half of those estimated to be living with HIV/AIDS in the United States.  Service related grants are authorized to utilize a small portion of funds to contract for, or reimburse, necessary transportation services.  Annual funding appropriations for the CARE Act is approximately $2,073,296,000.

The statutory language pertaining to transportation provisions within this program is found within the following citation(s): 

42 U.S.C.A. § 300ff-21

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