HIV/AIDS terms starting with R

11 terms

  1. Reflectiveness The extent to which the demographics of the planning body's membership look like the demographics of the epidemic in the service area.
  2. 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…
  3. 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…
  4. Request for Proposals (RFP) An open and competitive process for selecting providers of services (sometimes called RFA or Request for Application).
  5. Resource Allocation The Part A planning council responsibility to assign Ryan White HIV/AIDS Programt amounts or percentages to established priorities across specific service…
  6. Reverse Transcriptase Polymerase Chain Reaction (RT-PCR) A laboratory technique that can detect and quantify the amount of HIV (viral load) in a person's blood or lymph nodes.
  7. 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…
  8. Ryan White Comprehensive AIDS Resources Emergency (CARE) Act Federal legislation created to address the unmet health care and service needs of people living with HIV Disease (PLWH) disease and their families.
  9. 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…
  10. Ryan White HIV/AIDS Program Services Report (RSR) Data collection and reporting system for reporting information on programs and clients served (Client Level Data).
  11. Ryan White Program Data Report (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…