AEGiS-APPJ: The National AIDS Network: Promoting Community-Based AIDS Services

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The National AIDS Network: Promoting Community-Based AIDS Services

AIDS & Public Policy Journal 4, no. 3 (1989): 164-167
P.A. Kawata and John-Manuel Andriote

Given the general shortage of government funding for health care delivery and social services, AIDS service organizations have come to the forefront in the communities hardest hit by AIDS to provide the education needed to prevent the further spread of HIV, raise funds for a full-scale assault on the epidemic, and provide services to the ill. AIDS service organizations view AIDS as a problem that is inadequately addressed by the traditional medical model of health care delivery. While the medical model relies heavily on long-term hospital care--and exorbitant sums of money to pay for it--the community-based response to AIDS relies on a continuum of care, a network of services within the affected individual's community that address the medical and social needs the epidemic has engendered.
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