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Action Alert: Help Reauthorize The Ryan White HIV/AIDS Treatment Modernization Act

On September 30, the Ryan White HIV/AIDS Treatment Modernization Act is set to expire. With millions of Americans living with HIV/AIDS completely dependent for their medical care on the Ryan White programs, it is vital that the Ryan White HIV/AIDS Treatment Modernization Act is reauthorized by Congress.

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Enacted in 1990, the Ryan White HIV/AIDS Treatment Modernization Act, named after a teenager infected with HIV who became a national spokesman for the rights of people living with HIV/AIDS in the 1980s, is an attempt at making care available to those patients that cannot afford treatments by any other means. It is the largest federal program for helping people with HIV/AIDS. Starting with 220 million dollars in 1990, funding of the Ryan White programs in 2005 increased to 2.1 billion dollars with roughly one-third of the funding going to AIDS Drug Assistance Programs, which provide HIV-treatment drugs to low income patients in all fifty states.

The programs funded through the Ryan White HIV/AIDS Treatment Modernization Act provide vital medical care and counseling and are “payer of last resort,” meaning they help people living with HIV/AIDS who have no other way of paying for their medication and treatments. Without the programs funded by the Ryan White HIV/AIDS Treatment Modernization Act these people would literally be unable to afford their medical care.

Please help us educate members of Congress on this important issue: fill out your information on our website and send an e-mail to your elected officials in Washington D.C. and urge them to support the reauthorization for three years of the Ryan White HIV/AIDS Treatment Modernization Act.

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For more information read the HIV/AIDS Community Consensus on the Future of the Ryan White HIV/AIDS Treatment Modernization Act from the CAEAR (Communities Advocating Emergency AIDS Relief) coalition.