Policy 2
In the early 1980's a new disease known as human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) was introduced into the medical field. The disease was something new to study and had no cure at the time. Society began to speculate were this disease came from. For approximately twenty years the disease was thought of as the gay mans disease. Not until the early nineties did society begin to see that the disease was not a gay mans disease but women and young infants were getting the HIV virus. As more people come out that they have this disease the speculation has stopped on who can get it and now everyone knows it is not just one group of society but a disease that everyone can get. In 1990 the Ryan White CARE Act was implemented to provide care for people with HIV. Money is given to states and metropolitan areas with large numbers of citizens with AIDS. The act also provides grants for prevention of the virus and grants to research the virus in hopes to find a cure (Anonymous, 2000b). Human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) leads to the disease acquired immune deficiency syndrome (AIDS). The disease AIDS kills white blood cells that make up the immune system. A person with AIDS is unable
Crisis, National AIDS Fund, National Native American AIDS Prevention Center, and the list goes on ( HIV/AIDS Support Groups, 1998). The title also outlines who should be in charge of the program once the money in given. The title outlines the qualifications of the official , the purpose, and duties. Section 2603 of Title I People affected by the program positively are people with HIV or AIDS who receive benefits from the policy. Programs that are implemented due to policy will provide jobs and benefit people working in the specified fields. Families who have members with the disease are also benefited through counseling sessions and the research provided to help find a cure for their loved ones. The early intervention programs could help everyone by bringing information to them. Pharmaceutical companies are also affected because they are benefited by the earnings that let people who other wise could not get or receive medications needed can now receive the treatments making money for the people who make the drugs and equipment needed to give the drugs. They also may be affected negatively because the government may not subsidize as much money that a private physician could get for the drugs. People affected negatively also include the patients, city's or states who don't meet the requirements for getting the grant money. A good and bad affect of the policy is that people with HIV are living longer but the number of people getting the disease is growing ( American Association for World Health, 1999). Unintended results include people not being eligible for the programs due to not enough people in their area having the virus or disease. Also, abuse of the programs have been reported. Such allocations include urban areas receiving major amounts of money while rural areas are scraping by to provide services. The policy being analyzed is the Ryan White CARE Act (Public Law 101-381). Groups who minimize the problem include people who care for the patients with the disease. Law makers who wrote the policy and people who implement the programs all minimize the problem. Educators and healthcare providers all help in some part to either information people of the disease or research it in search for a cure or medicine to help with the disease. Pharmaceutical companies benefit from not finding a cure because they make and distribute the medicines needed for the patients. If a cure was found then all the medicines and research projects would not be needed and people could lose their jobs. Early intervention programs would also be shut down if the problem was found. There are four different titles that give different grant opportunities. Title I-HIV Emergency Relief Grant Program as different criteria in order for communities and states to receive the grant money. Under Title I states must provide the number of HIV/AIDS cases in each area , the severity of need, and the resources that are needed and that the state already provides. To receive the grant the elected official must also provide information coming from the areas of
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