HIV/AIDS

HIV/AIDS terms

1. Acquired Immunodeficiency Syndrome (AIDS) (AIDS) A disease caused by the human immunodeficiency virus.
2. Administrative or Fiscal Agent Entity that functions to assist the grantee, consortium, or other planning body in carrying out administrative activities (e.g.
3. Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality (AHRQ) (AHRQ) A division of Department of Health and Human Services.
4. AIDS Drug Assistance Program (ADAP) (ADAP) Administered by States and authorized under Part B of the Ryan White Treatment Modernization Act.
5. AIDS Education and Training Center (AETC) (AETC) Regional centers providing education and training for primary care professionals and other AIDS-related personnel.
6. AIDS Service Organization (ASO) (ASO) An organization that provides primary medical care and/or support services to populations infected with and affected by HIV disease.
7. Antiretroviral A substance that fights against a retrovirus, such as HIV. (See Retrovirus)
8. Capacity Your ability to make your mortgage payments on time. This depends on your income and income stability (job history and security), your assets and savings…
9. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) (CDC) A division of Department of Health and Human Services.
10. Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) (CMS) Federal agency within HHS that administers the Medicaid, Medicare, and the Children’s Health Insurance Program (CHIP).
11. Chief Elected Official (CEO) (CEO) The official recipient of Part A or Part B Ryan White HIV/AIDS Program funds. For Part A, this is usually a city mayor, county executive, or chair of the…
12. Co-morbidity The presence of one or more diseases or disorders in addition to a primary disease or disorder.
13. Community Based Dental Partnership Program (CBDPP) (CBDPP) The program within the HRSA HIV/AIDS Bureau's Division of Community Based Programs that delivers HIV/AIDS dental care while simultaneously training dental…
14. Community Forum or Public Meeting A small-group method of collecting information from community members in which a community meeting is used to provide a directed but highly interactive…
15. Community Programs for Clinical Research on AIDS (CPCRA) (CPCRA) Community-based clinical trials network that obtains evidence to guide clinicians and PLWHA on the most appropriate use of available HIV therapies.
16. Community-based Organization (CBO) (CBO) An organization that provides services to locally defined populations, which may or may not include populations infected with or affected by HIV disease.
17. Comprehensive Planning The process of determining the organization and delivery of HIV services. This strategy is used by planning bodies to improve decision-making about…
18. Consortium/HIV Care Consortium A regional or statewide planning entity established by many State grantees under Part B of the Ryan White HIV/AIDS Program to plan and sometimes…
19. Continuous Quality Improvement An ongoing process that involves organization members in monitoring and evaluating programs to continuously improve service delivery.
20. Continuum of Care (kon-TIN-yoo-um …) In medicine, describes the delivery of health care over a period of time.
21. Core Services Grantee expenditures are limited to core medical services, support services, and administrative expenses.
22. Cultural Competence The knowledge, understanding, and skills to work effectively with individuals from differing cultural backgrounds.
23. Data Terms For definitions of terms used in the Ryan White Services Report (RSR) for reporting client level data, see the Data Dictionary.
24. Division of Community Based Programs (DCBP) (DCBP) The division within HRSA's HIV/AIDS Bureau that is responsible for administering Part C, Part D, and the HIV/AIDS Dental Programs (the Dental…
25. Division of Science and Policy (DSP) (DSP) The office within HRSA's HIV/AIDS Bureau that administers the Part F (SPNS) Program, HIV/AIDS evaluation studies, policy, and data reporting.
26. Division of Service Systems (DSS) (DSS) The division within HRSA's HIV/AIDS Bureau that administers Part A and Part B of the Ryan White HIV/AIDS Program.
27. Division of Training and Technical Assistance (DTTA) (DTTA) The division within HRSA's HIV/AIDS Bureau that administers the AIDS Education and Training Centers (Part F) and technical assistance and training…
28. Early Intervention Services (EIS) (EIS) Activities designed to identify individuals who are HIV-positive and get them into care as quickly as possible.
29. Eligible Metropolitan Area (EMA) (EMA) Geographic areas highly-impacted by HIV/AIDS that are eligible to receive Ryan White HIV/AIDS Program Part A funds To be an eligible EMA, an area must…
30. Epidemic A disease that occurs clearly in excess of normal expectation and spreads rapidly through a demographic segment of the human population.
31. Epidemiologic Profile A description of the current status, distribution, and impact of an infectious disease or other health-related condition in a specified geographic area.
32. Epidemiology (EH-pih-dee-mee-AH-loh-jee) The study of the patterns, causes, and control of disease in groups of people.
33. Exposure Category In describing HIV/AIDS cases, same as transmission categories; how an individual may have been exposed to HIV, such as injecting drug use, male-to-male…
34. Family Centered Care A model in which systems of care under Ryan White Part D are designed to address the needs of PLWHA and affected family members as a unit, providing or…
35. Financial Status Report (FSR - Form 269) A report that is required to be submitted within 90 days after the end of the budget period that serves as documentation of the financial status of grants…
36. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) (FDA) Federal agency within HHS responsible for ensuring the safety and effectiveness of drugs, biologics, vaccines, and medical devices used (among others) in…
37. Grantee An individual to whom an interest in real property is conveyed.
38. Health Care for the Homeless Health Center A grantee funded under section 330(h) of the Public Health Service Act to provide primary health and related services to homeless individuals.
39. Health Centers Community-based and patient-directed organizations that serve populations with limited access to health care.
40. Health Insurance Continuity Program (HICP) (HICP) A program primarily under Part B of the Ryan White HIV/AIDS Program that makes premium payments, co-payments, deductibles, and/or risk pool payments on…
41. Health Resources and Services Administration (HRSA) (HRSA) The agency of the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services that administers various primary care programs for the medically underserved, including the…
42. High-Risk Insurance Pool A State health insurance program that provides coverage for individuals who are denied coverage due to a pre-existing condition or who have health…
43. Highly Active Antiretroviral Therapy (HAART) (HAART) HIV treatment using multiple antiretroviral drugs to reduce viral load to undetectable levels and maintain/increase CD4 levels.
44. HIV/AIDS Bureau (HAB) (HAB) The bureau within the Health Resources and Services Administration (HRSA) of the U.S.
45. HIV/AIDS Dental Reimbursement Program The program within the HRSA HIV/AIDS Bureau's Division of Community Based Programs that assists with uncompensated costs incurred in providing oral health…
46. Home and Community Based Care A category of eligible services that States may fund under Part B of the Ryan White HIV/AIDS Program.
47. Housing Opportunities for People With AIDS (HOPWA) (HOPWA) A program administered by the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD) that provides funding to support housing for PLWHA and their families.
48. Human Immunodeficiency Virus (HIV) Disease (HIV) Any signs, symptoms, or other adverse health effects due to the human immunodeficiency virus.
49. Incidence The number of new cases of a disease diagnosed each year.
50. Incidence Rate The ratio of the number of new cancers of a specific site/type occurring in a specified population during a year to the number of individuals who were at…
51. Intergovernmental Agreement (IGA) (IGA) A written agreement between a governmental agency and an outside agency that provides HIV services.
52. Lead Agency The agency within a Part B consortium that is responsible for contract administration; also called a fiscal agent (an incorporated consortium sometimes…
53. Medicaid Spend-down A process whereby an individual who meets the Medicaid medical eligibility criteria, but has income that exceeds the financial eligibility ceiling, may…
54. Minority AIDS Initiative (MAI) (MAI) A national HHS initiative that provides special resources to reduce the spread of HIV/AIDS and improve health outcomes for people living with HIV/AIDS…
55. Multiply Diagnosed A person having multiple morbidities (e.g., substance abuse and HIV infection) (see co-morbidity).
56. Needs Assessment A process of collecting information about the needs of PLWHA (both those receiving care and those not in care), identifying current resources (Ryan White…
57. Office of Management and Budget (OMB) (OMB) The office within the executive branch of the Federal government that prepares the President's annual budget, develops the Federal government's fiscal…
58. Opportunistic Infection (OI) or Opportunistic Condition (OI) An infection or cancer that occurs in persons with weak immune systems due to HIV, cancer, or immunosuppressive drugs such as corticosteroids or…
59. Part A The part of the Ryan White HIV/AIDS Program (formerly, Title I) that provides emergency assistance to localities (EMAs) disproportionately affected by the…
60. Part B The part of the Ryan White HIV/AIDS Program (formerly, Title II) that provides funds to States and territories for primary health care (including HIV…
61. Part C The part of the Ryan White HIV/AIDS Program (formerly, Title III) that supports outpatient primary medical care and early intervention services to PLWHA…
62. Part D The part of the Ryan White HIV/AIDS Program (formerly, Title IV) that supports coordinated services and access to research for children, youth, and women…
63. Part F (AETC) (AIDS Education and Training Center) Regional centers providing education and training for primary care professionals and other AIDS-related personnel.
64. Part F (Community Based Dental Partnership Program) The program within the HRSA HIV/AIDS Bureau's Division of Community Based Programs that delivers HIV/AIDS dental care while simultaneously training dental…
65. Part F (HIV/AIDS Dental Reimbursement Program) The program within the HRSA HIV/AIDS Bureau's Division of Community Based Programs that assists with uncompensated costs incurred in providing oral health…
66. Part F (SPNS) (Special Projects of National Significance) A health services demonstration, research, and evaluation program funded under Part F of the Ryan White HIV/AIDS Program to identify innovative models of…
67. Planning Council A planning body appointed or established by the Chief Elected Official of an EMA whose basic function is to assess needs, establish a plan for the…
68. Planning Process Steps taken and methods used to collect information, analyze and interpret it, set priorities, and prepare a plan for rational decision making.
69. Prevalence The total number of persons in a defined population living with a specific disease or condition at a given time (compared to incidence, which is the…
70. Prevalence Rate The proportion of a population that has a particular condition at any given time, whether as a new or chronic case.
71. Priority Setting The process used to establish priorities among service categories, to ensure consistency with locally identified needs, and to address how best to meet…
72. Prophylaxis An attempt to prevent disease.
73. Public Health Service (PHS) (PHS) An administrative entity of the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services.
74. Quality The degree to which a health or social service meets or exceeds established professional standards and user expectations.
75. Quality Assurance (QA) (QA) The process of identifying problems in service delivery, designing activities to overcome these problems, and following up to ensure that no new problems…
76. Quality Improvement (QI) (QI) Also called Continuous Quality Improvement (CQI). An ongoing process of monitoring and evaluating activities and outcomes in order to continuously improve…
77. Reflectiveness The extent to which the demographics of the planning body's membership look like the demographics of the epidemic in the service area.
78. Reliability The consistency of a measure or question in obtaining very similar or identical results when used repeatedly; for example, if you repeated a blood test…
79. Representative Term used to indicate that a sample is similar to the population from which it was drawn, and therefore can be used to make inferences about that…
80. Request for Proposals (RFP) (RFP) An open and competitive process for selecting providers of services (sometimes called RFA or Request for Application).
81. Resource Allocation The Part A planning council responsibility to assign Ryan White HIV/AIDS Programt amounts or percentages to established priorities across specific service…
82. Reverse Transcriptase Polymerase Chain Reaction (RT-PCR) (RT-PCR) A laboratory technique that can detect and quantify the amount of HIV (viral load) in a person's blood or lymph nodes.
83. Risk Factor or Risk Behavior Behavior or other factor that places a person at risk for disease; for HIV/AIDS, this includes such factors as male-to-male sexual contact, injection drug…
84. Ryan White Comprehensive AIDS Resources Emergency (CARE) Act (CARE) Federal legislation created to address the unmet health care and service needs of people living with HIV Disease (PLWH) disease and their families.
85. Ryan White HIV/AIDS Act of 2009 (Ryan White HIV/AIDS Program) Enacted in 2009, this legislation reauthorized the Ryan White Program, formerly called the Ryan White CARE Act and the Ryan White HIV/AIDS Treatment…
86. Ryan White HIV/AIDS Program Services Report (RSR) (RSR) Data collection and reporting system for reporting information on programs and clients served (Client Level Data).
87. Ryan White Program Data Report (RDR) (RDR) Formerly known as the CARE Act Data Report (CADR), a provider-based report generating aggregate client, provider, and service data for all Ryan White…
88. Salvage Therapy (SAL-vij THAYR-uh-pee) Treatment that is given after the cancer has not responded to other treatments.
89. Section 340B Drug Discount Program A program administered by the HRSA's Bureau of Primary Care, Office of Pharmacy Affairs established by Section 340B of the Veteran's Health Care Act of…
90. Seroconversion The development of detectable antibodies to HIV in the blood as a result of infection.
91. Seroprevalence The number of persons in a defined population who test HIV-positive based on HIV testing of blood specimens.
92. Service Gaps All the service needs of all PLWH except for the need for primary health care for individuals who know their status but are not in care.
93. Statewide Coordinated Statement of Need (SCSN) (SCSN) A written statement of need for the entire State developed through a process designed to collaboratively identify significant HIV issues and maximize Ryan…
94. Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration (SAMHSA) (SAMHSA) Federal agency within HHS that administers programs in substance abuse and mental health.
95. Support Services Grantee expenditures are limited to core medical services, support services, and administrative expenses.
96. Surveillance (ser-VAY-lents) In medicine, the ongoing collection of information about a disease, such as cancer, in a certain group of people.
97. Surveillance Report A report providing information on the number of reported cases of a disease such as AIDS, nationally and for specific sub-populations.
98. Target Population A population to be reached through some action or intervention; may refer to groups with specific demographic or geographic characteristics.
99. Technical Assistance (TA) (TA) The delivery of practical program and technical support to the CARE Act community.
100. Transitional Grant Area (TGA) (TGA) Geographic areas highly-impacted by HIV/AIDS that are eligible to receive Ryan White HIV/AIDS Program Part A funds To be an eligible TGA, an area must…