Date: Wed, 23 Aug 1995 10:03:01 +0500
From: ghmcleaf{CONTRACTOR/ASPEN/ghmcleaf}%NAC-GATEWAY.ASPEN@ace.aspensys.com
Subject: HIV/AIDS Work Group On Health Care Acces



Title: HIV/AIDS Work Group On Health Care Access Issues For Women
Author:   HEALTH RESOURCES AND SERVICES ADMINISTRATION
Date:          February 1992

The Health Resources and Services Administration (HRSA), Bureau
of Health Resources Development (BHRD), sponsored a two day Work
Group on Barriers to HIV Care for Women living with HIV disease.
The participants in this work group consisted of service delivery
professionals working with female clients, health services
researchers with expertise in HIV and women's health, as well as
Federal representatives.  Participants discussed issues related
to barriers of HIV/AIDS services to women and strategies to
reduce or eliminate these barriers.  Several participants were
people living with HIV disease.

Work Group members were asked to help the Bureau to: (1) identify
and understand barriers to HIV care funded under the Ryan White
Comprehensive AIDS Resources Emergency (C.A.R.E). Act; (2)
develop a framework to deal with access issues specific to
particular populations, as well as with those that cut across
several population; and (3) involve affected populations in
defining these issues.

The Work Group identifiying the following areas for proposed
technical assistance and evaluation studies:
     *    Special needs of drug using/recovering women;
     *    Training providers to serve women;
     *    Migration;
     *    Intra- and Interagency policies and practices;
     *    HIV-related support services for women;
     *    Continuum of care;
     *    Special needs of adolescent women;
     *    Program organization development; and
     *    Meeting the needs of women as women.

Individuals from Federal and private sectors with an interest in
HIV and women's health attended an afternoon closing session,
during which proposed study designs and general recommendations
were presented.

For a copy of this report,  contact Ms. Vanessa Briggs, (301)
443-6563, Human Resources and Services Administration, 5600
Fishers Lane, Room 7A-07, Rockville, MD 20857.  Please include
your name, title, and mailing address, and a copy will be sent to
you.