HIV/ AIDS

HIV/ AIDS
Author: United States Government Accountability Office
Publisher: Createspace Independent Publishing Platform
Total Pages: 136
Release: 2017-09-13
Genre:
ISBN: 9781976357602
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Among federal efforts to address the HIV/AIDS epidemic are the CARE Act of 1990 and the Housing Opportunities for Persons with AIDS program (HOPWA) administered by the Departments of Health and Human Services (HHS) and Housing and Urban Development (HUD), respectively. Both use formulas based upon a grantee's number of AIDS cases, rather than HIV and AIDS cases, to distribute funds to metropolitan areas, states, and territories. HIV cases must be incorporated with AIDS cases in CARE Act formulas not later than fiscal year 2007. GAO was asked to examine (1) how CARE Act and HOPWA funds are allocated among types of services, (2) the extent of funding distribution differences among CARE Act and HOPWA grantees, and how funding formula provisions contribute to these differences, and (3) what distribution differences could result from incorporating HIV case counts in CARE Act and HOPWA funding formulas.

Ryan White CARE Act

Ryan White CARE Act
Author: United States. Government Accountability Office
Publisher: DIANE Publishing
Total Pages: 37
Release: 2009
Genre: AIDS (Disease)
ISBN: 1437922570
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Ryan White Care Act

Ryan White Care Act
Author: Marcia Crosse (au)
Publisher: DIANE Publishing
Total Pages: 76
Release: 2006-06
Genre: Health & Fitness
ISBN: 9781422307229
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Ryan White Care Act

Ryan White Care Act
Author: United States Government Accountability Office
Publisher: Createspace Independent Publishing Platform
Total Pages: 28
Release: 2017-09-13
Genre:
ISBN: 9781976366147
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The CARE Act, a federal effort to address the HIV/AIDS epidemic, is administered by HHS. The Act uses formulas based upon a grantee's number of AIDS cases to distribute funds to eligible metropolitan areas (EMA), states, and territories. The use of AIDS cases was prescribed because most jurisdictions tracked and reported only AIDS cases when the grant programs were established. HIV cases must be incorporated with AIDS cases in CARE Act formulas no later than fiscal year 2007. GAO was asked to discuss factors that affect the distribution of CARE Act funding. This testimony is based on HIV/AIDS: Changes Needed to Improve the Distribution of Ryan White CARE Act and Housing Funds, GAO-06-332 (Feb. 28, 2006). GAO discusses how specific funding-formula provisions contribute to funding differences among CARE Act grantees and what distribution differences could result from using HIV cases in CARE Act funding formulas.

Federal Programs to Die For

Federal Programs to Die For
Author: Tom Coburn
Publisher: DIANE Publishing
Total Pages: 19
Release: 2011-06
Genre: Reference
ISBN: 1437942245
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This report examines the problem that in the past decade, Washington sent over $1 billion of American tax dollars to dead people. The U.S. government paid for dead people's prescriptions and wheelchairs, subsidized their farms, helped pay their rent, and even chipped in for their heating and air conditioning bills. In some cases, these payments quietly gather in a dormant bank account. In many others, however, they land in the pockets of still-living people, who are defrauding the system by collecting benefits meant for a now-deceased relative. Since 2000, the known cost of these payments to over 250,000 deceased individuals has topped $1 billion. This is likely only a small picture of a much larger problem. A print on demand report.