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Hepatitis C Treatment Expansion Initiative

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Background

The Special Projects of National Significance Program’s Hepatitis C Treatment Expansion Initiative will support organizations implementing effective, focused interventions designed to increase access to and completion of Hepatitis C (HCV) treatment for HIV-positive patients.  About one quarter of HIV-infected persons in the U.S. are also infected with HCV.  Hepatitis C affects about 3.2 million people in the United States, and is responsible for approximately 17,000 deaths each year. This initiative will evaluate the effectiveness of the interventions to deliver HCV treatment among HIV-positive populations, and share best practice models with Ryan White grantees and other HIV medical providers to improve access and quality of Ryan White services for HIV patients.

Awards have be made to organizations in two demonstration site cohorts, each with two-year project periods beginning in 2010 and 2011.  In addition, a separate four-year cooperative agreement was awarded to the University of South Florida to serve as the ETAC, which will evaluate and provide technical assistance to the demonstration sites.

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Grantees

Cohort 1

AIDS Resource Center of Wisconsin, Milwaukee, WI

Bronx-Lebanon Hospital Center, Bronx, NY

Carilion Medical Center, Roanoke, VA

Cambridge Health Alliance, Cambridge, MA

Clarion University of Pennsylvania, Clarion, PA

East Bay AIDS Center (EBAC), Oakland, CA.

Harlem United Community AIDS Center, New York, NY

Inova Health Care Services, Springfield, VA

Kansas City Free Health Clinic, Kansas City, MO

St. Mary Medical Center Foundation, Long Beach, CA

SUNY Downstate Medical Center, Brooklyn, NY

University of California, San Francisco, CA

Washington University, St. Louis, MO

William F. Ryan Community Health Center, New York, NY

Cohort 2

AIDS Care Group, Chester, PA

Alta Med Health Services Corporation, Los Angeles, CA

Boston Health Care For The Homeless, Boston, MA

Chase Brexton Health Services, Baltimore, MD

City of Portland Maine

Cooper Health System, Cherry Hill, NJ

Harlem Hospital Center, New York, NY

Health Delivery, Inc., Saginaw, MI

Health Services Center, Hobson City, AL

Housing Works, Brooklyn, NY

Howard Brown Health Center, Chicago, IL

Idaho State University, Pocatello, ID

Siouxland Community Health Center, Sioux Falls, IA

St. Hope Foundation, Houston, TX

St. Luke's Roosevelt Institute for Health Sciences, New York, NY

Evaluation and Technical Assistant Center  

University of South Florida, Tampa, FL

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Journal Articles

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