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May 5, 2025
Guidance Offers Recommendations For Expanding Care to Homeless People With HIV
By Aaron Tallent
A number of programs across the country are designed to reach and provide healthcare to people experiencing homelessness, including those who are living with HIV. However, these initiatives also face challenges in finding adequate funding. To help meet their needs, the HIV Medicine Association (HIVMA) and Center for Health Care Strategies have issued guidance to help providers develop and sustainably fund low-barrier clinics and street medicine (bit.ly/4lon89p-IDSE).
“Ultimately, our goal as HIV care providers is to serve all individuals, and the people who need us the most and have the most difficult time accessing care are often those who experience homelessness. This guidance we hope helps clinics think about how to do that effectively,” said Wendy Armstrong, MD, a past chair of HIVMA and the chief of the Division of Infectious Diseases at the University of Colorado School of Medicine, in Aurora.
Roughly 1 in 500 people experience homelessness, and it is disproportionately higher in minorities. For example, the guidance reported that Blacks comprise 37% of those experiencing homelessness in the United States, even though they represent only 13% of the overall population.
Continue reading... https://www.idse.net/HIV-AIDS/Article/04-25/Guidance-Offers-Recommendations-For-Expanding-Care-to-Homeless-People-With-HIV/76907
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