Ryan White CARE Act
Background and Major Provisions
The Ryan White Comprehensive AIDS Resources Emergency (CARE) Act makes Federal funds available to metropolitan areas and States to provide a number of health care services for AIDS patients including medical care, drug treatments, dental care, home health care, and outpatient mental health and substance abuse treatment.The Ryan White CARE Act was reauthorized through Fiscal Year (FY) 2005 under the Ryan White CARE Act Amendments of 2000 (P.L. 106-345). P.L. 106-345 retained the basic structure of the Ryan White CARE Act, but changed the formulas used to distribute Title I and Title II grants as discussed in the following sections….
