Policies, Finance, Global Prevention Initiatives And Ethical Principles

FAC’s mandate to include AIDS projects in Africa and Asia. One of the board members

AIDS is no longer thought of as a death sentence as long as the recipient receives an early diagnosis. The awareness brought about by the life of Ryan White eventually lead to the development of lifesaving treatments for HIV/AIDS patients (John 6). Even after White passed away, his legacy lived on. Four short months after his death, Congress passed the AIDS bill that bears his name - the Ryan White Care Act. This act, to this day, is the United States's largest government funded program to support people with AIDS. As more and more people have contracted AIDS, the funding for the program has increased. The Act works with cities, states, and community-based organizations to provide some level of HIV treatment (Decker 7-8). Although it does not help every single person living with AIDS in the United States, the Ryan White Care Act reaches out to more than one half million people annually. About 50% of all people living with HIV in the United States are touched by the Ryan White Care Act in some way or

According to Pros and Cons of ObamaCare, “ ObamaCare (the Affordable Care Act) contains many benefits, especially for low and middle income families and businesses. ObamaCare also contains some obstacles for high earners, larger firms that don’t insure their employees, and certain sectors of the healthcare industry”(2015). The Affordable Care Act (ACA) provides insurance for million, it has also made the preventative care for patients free. Now it allows people to be treated before they need the expensive emergency room services. Also, one of the major benefits of having health insurance under this act is that insurance companies can no longer deny anyone coverage for preexisting conditions. Many insurance companies deny insurance to patients with HIV/AIDS. Shi & Singh confirm this in chapter 8, “ Many HIV/AIDS patients are expected to gain health insurance under the ACA”(2015). There has been a lot of debate on whether The Affordable Care Act (ACA) is worth our money. Over time may studies have been made to check the benefits of this program as well, Schoen, Doty and Robertson state that,” To provide a baseline and assess the potential of changes brought about under the Affordable Care Act, this study estimates the number of US adults who were underinsured or uninsured in 2010. Using indicators of medical cost exposure

The purpose of this dissertation isto assess the impact of the Affordable Care Act (ACA) on the Human Immunodeficiency Virus (HIV) care continuum. This dissertationwill focuson addressing the gap in current research by improving understanding of the impacts of the ACA on care for individuals living with HIV. It is estimated that over 1 million Americans live with HIV (Kates, 2012). Though the number of HIV infections has stabilized at around 50,000 annually, there are reports of new strains of HIV arising among homosexuals (Kates, 2012). People Living with HIV/AIDS (PLWHA) are less likely to be insured due to low socio-economic status (SES), therefore, rely on Medicaid for insurance coverage. Statistics indicate that only 25% of PLWHA are virally

This notion of social justice views “assurance of the essential condition” for the well-being of humans as the means of government (Gostin, 535). As well it dissuades the idea that individuals are or should pursue their own self interest, but moreso furthers the approach of redistributing “social and economic goods” equal to everyone (Gostin, 535). This connects to the right to health. The right to health is an inclusive right, contains individual freedoms, contains entitlements, the attainability of goods without any discrimination and that these goods are available, accessible, acceptable and of substantial quality (The Right to Health, 7). This being addressed by recognizing the health disparities that inhibit from the right to health and finding the means or solutions to overcome them. The African American Health coalition has dedicated their time and resources to ensure that individuals within their target population are receiving and being provided adequate care and their right to health is not compromised by health disparities. The specific issues that they are currently directing their efforts into are brownfields, lead paint, limited healthy food choices, violence and criminal activity, lower socioeconomic status, low education levels, high population turnover, unhealthy lifestyle choices, and poverty (Common Ground Health). These factors are the core issues of social

It is probably the worst kept secret in the United States that minorities living in low income areas have the worst access to health care in the developed nation. Oftentimes they have to choose between going to the doctor to get treatment that could potentially save their lives or risk putting their families in millions of dollars’ worth of debt. Crooked CEOS jack up the prices of insulin, EpiPen’s, and a host of other lifesaving medications just to make an extra dollar. Research on Black Americans is typically underfunded, not to mention the underlying mistrust that people of color in low income communities can occasionally exhibit to doctors, police officers, etc. It is hard to trust someone in a position of authority when historically they have oppressed and hurt your people. The Tuskegee Syphilis Study, a study where black men were used as laboratory experiments to examine the effects of syphilis, is proof enough. Therefore, I propose a 3-step plan to help people livening in these situations.

The Obama Presidency is known for many things: two wars, economy crashes, government shutdowns and, yes, the infamous Obamacare. Throughout the last six years, President Obama’s agenda was set towards passing a major healthcare reform bill: The Patient Protection and Affordable Healthcare Act (ACA), more commonly known as Obamacare. Passed on March 23, 2010 under considerable opposition, ACA is widely considered to be the landmark achievement of Obama’s presidency, and his hopeful legacy for historians long afterward. The law has since survived multiple challenges regarding its legality, but its impact on the intended (original) goal of reducing medical costs is still unclear. Affordable healthcare for all

The Act was adopted as a law by the US president Barrack Obama on March, 23 in the year 2010. The goal of this law is to reform the United States health systems by providing and improving access to quality and affordable health care, health insurance and providing American citizens with more rights and protections by reducing health care expenditure for both individuals and the government. The law also aims at expanding private and public insurance coverage, as well as, regulating the insurance industry. Governments are working tirelessly to ensure that its citizens have health insurances. Unfortunately, millions of people have never been insured.The level of poverty in many countries is to be blamed for this as many citizens cannot afford to insure themselves and their families. They therefore have very limited or no access to the health services. This has caused an increase in the number of illnesses in the countries.The cost of running the health care is very expensive. Guaranteeing citizens of basic and improved health care is more than unbearable to many countries, not to mention the expensive medical technologies that some countries cannot afford. It’s not surprising to hear that some diseases cannot be controlled in some countries because of lack of necessary medical equipments to treat or control them. The cost of employing qualified personnel in the medicine field is another issue at hand. This expensive nature of health care has resulted to lack medical technology, drugs and also qualified personnel in many health

In summary, this essay focused on the Affordable Care Act (ACA) also known as Obama Care, a law designed to ensure that Americans have some basic security when it comes to their health care. It gave emphasis to the Iron Triangle or the ‘sub-government’, a mechanism used to assess health care systems of all kinds and comes in three parts access, cost, and quality. Last, this essay examines the disparities and HIV/AIDS. According to the U.S. Department of Health & Human Services the group of people who are disproportionately affected by HIV are African Americans Gay and Bisexual

Ethnic and racial disparities in the health system will expand if the new policy reform takes place. Blacks and Hispanics in the United States will suffer most if they are denied services because of their health status. Under the current Affordable Care Act that was signed in 2010, insurers did not have the power to reject or deny coverage to anyone based on their health status but the new reform represents a violation of human rights where equality to access health insurance is threatened. Under Article 15 in the Universal Declaration of Human Rights, everyone has the right to medical care and the right to security in the case of sickness “Everyone has the right to a standard of living adequate for the health and well-being of himself and of his family, including food, clothing, housing and medical care and necessary social services, and the right to security in the event of unemployment, sickness, disability, widowhood, old age or other lack of livelihood in circumstances beyond his control” (Universal Declaration of Human Rights, 1948). In enacting the repeal of ACA and denying coverage for people with pre-existing conditions, the United States is standing against its promises and commitment from its international treaty obligations to end racial discrimination in health care access. In addition, the U.S has accepted its obligations to stop discrimination in the health system by its agreements with the international

The first mission in the National Planning Framework is known as the National Prevention Framework. While the other frameworks focus on natural disasters and other hazards, the National Prevention Framework is the only framework that focuses solely on the prevention against acts of terrorism on U.S. soil (National Prevention Framework, 2013). The roles and responsibilities involved in the prevention of terrorism do not exclusively fall on the government, but rather a concerted effort by various local, state, tribal, territorial, Federal, non-profit and private sector entities. For this reason, it is important to understand the responsibilities of each entity, from the smallest role to the largest.

As a group, HHS (Health and Human Services) says, these people “have been particularly vulnerable to insurance industry abuses” and face barriers to obtaining care from qualified providers to help them. Not only does the Affordable Healthcare plan provide a safety net for citizens living with HIV/AIDS, it also expands Medicaid so that those with low incomes can get early access to treatment, while also eliminating limits on their lives. Many citizens living with HIV/AIDS have issues obtaining health Insurance because of their pre-existing condition. At the same time these citizens can not apply for Medicaid because some of them are not ‘sick’ enough to be considered ill or disabled and the government thinks that people have to be in a bad condition

Ryan was just months away from United States Congress passes a bill in his names titled “the Ryan White CARE (Comprehensive AIDS Resources Emergency) Act.” The Act is the United States largest federally funded program for people living with

Although the “war on AIDS have contributed to the development of policies, one important aspect of the disease was the Ryan White Care Act that came about from a young men who at the age of 13 was diagnosed with AIDs through a blood transfusion. It was this movement that brought about much awareness that HIV/Aids can happen to anyone. He was the first teenager, the first with hemophiliac to have AIDS. At the time, there was no education or information on AIDS. Since, the life and struggle of Ryan White, there has been changes in helping those with the disease. His death has sparked a national outcry for those who suffers with HIV (human immunodeficiency virus) the virus that causes AIDS (acquired immunodeficiency syndrome). His legacy has left behind for people to receive better care and live a longer life.

Just as clearly, experience shows that the right approaches, applied quickly enough with courage and resolve, can and do result in lower HIV infection rates and less suffering for those affected by the epidemic. An ever-growing AIDS epidemic is not inevitable; yet, unless action against the epidemic is scaled up drastically, the damage already done will seem minor compared with what lies ahead. This may sound dramatic, but it is hard to play down the effects of a disease that stands to kill more than half of the young adults in the countries where it has its firmest hold—most of them before they finish the work of caring for their children or providing for their elderly parents. Already, 18.8 million people around the world have died of AIDS, 3.8 million of them children. Nearly twice that many—34.3 million—are now living with HIV, the virus [9].