The Health Resources & Services Administration ("HRSA") HIV/AIDS Bureau at the U.S. Department of Health & Human Services ("HHS") has made available state profiles to highlight important client-level data (2015). It includes an interactive web platform, which allows users to compare states, compare states to national data, or compare data by year. The estimated number of clients served by Ryan White HIV/AIDS program providers in the United States in 2015 was 533,0361.[1]
Aside from client characteristics, other key data focuses on grant recipients, client outcomes, oral health programs, and services received. Of particular interest to stakeholders concerned about the AIDS Drug Assistance Program ("ADAP"), users can download how ADAP funds were administered in the United States in 2015. In 2015, an estimated 259,531 clients were served by ADAP in the United States. According to HRSA, new clients were served totaled 34,265.[2]
The site shares key ADAP-related client demographics on age, gender, race, and income. For example, Florida served 56,677 clients in 2015. Males represented 75.9% of the clients served, and females represented 23.4% of the clients served. Clients who identified as transgender were 0.7%. Vermont served 595 clients, with one in four clients being male.
HRSA sharing the Ryan White program-related data is not only important because it promotes programmatic transparency (and these programs have long demonstrated to be highly effective), but also because it fosters better state-level advocacy. All too often, data on public health programs can often be quite lacking, or delayed (or both). The data included on the site will come in handy as we map a new course to protect the public health safety net!
Explore national-and state-level Ryan White HIV/AIDS Program data.
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[1] HRSA. Ryan White HIV/AIDS Program Services Report (RSR) 2015. *RSR data were deduplicated at the national level. Clients receiving services in multiple states were not included in state-specific totals; these clients make up less than 2% of the total RWHAP population.
[2] HRSA. Ryan White HIV/AIDS Program Services Report (RSR) 2015.
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