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Cooperative Agreement Project Index

From 1994 through 1999, the Health Resources and Services Administration, HIV/AIDS Bureau, funded 27 Cooperative Agreements as Special Projects of National Significance (SPNS). During that period, The Measurement Group, and its partner agency PROTOTYPES, provided the Evaluation and Dissemination Center for these 27 grantees and HRSA.

The following links will take you to individual project resource pages featuring reports, paper abstracts, multimedia presentations and other materials by, and about, each project. Each project was funded in 1994 for a period between two and five years, to develop an innovative model of HIV/AIDS care.

AIDS Healthcare Foundation
AHF operated four healthcare centers to provide direct medical services to individuals living with HIV/AIDS under a capitated system of care.

Center for Community Health, Education, and Research/Haitian Community AIDS Outreach Project
The CCHER Haitian Community AIDS Outreach Project was a culturally competent psychosocial educational-counseling and case management program that has addressed the emotional and educational needs of HIV-positive Haitians in Boston.

Center for Women Policy Studies
The Metro DC Collaborative for Women with HIV – a collaboration with PROTOTYPES – reduced barriers to care for women with HIV through organizational collaboration and inclusion of women with HIV, their providers, and advocates in policy development.

East Boston Neighborhood Health Center
EBNHC provided coordinated, non-fragmented, comprehensive care to individuals with HIV/AIDS while developing a capitated system of care.

Emory University
Emory University developed and implemented educational models for increasing, improving, and updating knowledge about HIV infection and treatment among Georgia's correctional healthcare providers.

The Fortune Society
The Fortune Society delivered culturally and linguistically appropriate services to symptomatic HIV-positive prisoners and ex-offenders.

Health Initiatives for Youth
HIFY provided training to health and human service providers on offering developmentally and culturally appropriate care for HIV-affected youth and young adults ages 12-25.

Health Resources and Services Administration
HRSA is the funder for these projects and provides grants management oversight.

Hektoen Institute for Medical Research/Cook County HIV Primary Care Center
The project worked to insure HIV education, counseling and testing by consent in all family planning and perinatal sites in Cook County (at 69 hospitals) to guarantee on-going care for identified women living with HIV and their families.

Indiana Community AIDS Action Network
ICAAN helped to reduce discriminatory barriers to employment, care, housing, and other social services faced by individuals living with HIV/AIDS.

Interamerican College of Physicians and Surgeons
ICPS expanded access to health services for HIV-positive Hispanic populations by training Hispanic healthcare providers active in screening, testing, counseling and managing their patients at-risk or already HIV infected.

Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine
The Johns Hopkins University reduced financial barriers to adequate care for HIV/AIDS patients without comprising the quality of care by providing care under capitated financing.

Larkin Street Youth Center
LSYC reduced barriers to care and assisted homeless street youth in accessing psychosocial and medical services and provided a housing facility for youth with advanced stages of HIV disease.

Michigan Protection and Advocacy Service
The MPAS project trained community advocates throughout the state on HIV/AIDS issues to improve service delivery systems with an emphasis placed on the legal rights of individuals with HIV/AIDS.

Missouri Department of Health
The Missouri Department of Health developed and implemented an “Integrated Model of Care” for individuals with HIV/AIDS multiply diagnosed with a mental illness and/or substance abuse problems.

New York State Department of Health/Health Research
The New York State AIDS Institute studied information related to cost, utilization and access to care as persons with HIV/AIDS transitioned from fee-for-service to a managed care environment.

Outreach, Inc.
Outreach, Inc. offered a wide array of comprehensive services to African American substance abusers with HIV/AIDS residing in or around housing developments and actively linked these clients to medical care.

PROTOTYPES
PROTOTYPES WomensLink reduced barriers and increased access to care for women living with HIV/AIDS through the provision of a comprehensive, “seamless” continuum of care and services and tight linkages to medical providers.

SUNY–Health Science Center at Brooklyn
The project at SUNY Brooklyn increased counseling and testing of pregnant women and perinatal AZT protocols.

The Measurement Group–PROTOTYPES Evaluation & Dissemination Center
The Measurement Group and PROTOTYPES run the Evaluation and Dissemination Center for these grantees. This web site summarizes those activities. The Measurement Group was primarily responsible for evaluation and dissemination activities while PROTOTYPES was responsible for logistics support to the Steering Committee meetings. PROTOTYPES also assumed certain dissemination activities.

University of Colorado Health Sciences Center
This project evaluated the impact and cost effectiveness of alternate innovative educational methodologies for increasing service delivery to at-risk and HIV-seropositive individuals in rural areas.

University of Mississippi Medical Center
This project provided clinical training for rural healthcare providers with a computer-based distance learning system.

University of Nevada School of Medicine
The University of Nevada School of Medicine prevented or slowed wasting syndrome experienced by individuals living with HIV/AIDS through the provision of integrated and comprehensive healthcare.

University of Texas Health Science Center at San Antonio
The University of Texas helped to positively impact changes in the service delivery systems for families living with, or affected by, HIV/AIDS throughout South Texas.

University of Vermont & State Agricultural College
The University of Vermont & State Agricultural College reduced barriers to care experienced by individuals living with HIV in rural areas by providing integrated and comprehensive healthcare clinics throughout Vermont.

University of Washington
This project educated primary care providers, mental health staff, and volunteers to develop, test, and evaluate strategies for increasing, improving, and updating knowledge about HIV neuropsychiatric illness with specific emphasis on delirium and its treatment.

Visiting Nurse Association Foundation
VNAF’s Transprofessional Model used an interdisciplinary, care management approach – a blend of curative and palliative services – to improve services for end-stage AIDS patients.

Washington University
The Helena Hatch Special Care Center (HHSCC) – in the Division of Infectious Diseases – provided coordinated, comprehensive care to adolescent and adult women with HIV/AIDS.

Well-Being Institute
Through comprehensive, community-based services coordinated by nurse case managers, the Well-Being Institute reduced access barriers for substance abusing, HIV-positive women with tight linkages to medical providers to ensure services.

The Evaluation and Dissemination Center is supported in part by Grant Number 5 U90 HA 00030-05 from the Health Resources and Services Administration (HRSA), HIV/AIDS Bureau's (HAB) Special Projects of National Significance (SPNS). The contents of this site are solely the responsibility of the The Measurement Group and do not necessarily represent the official views of HRSA or HRSA/HAB's Special Projects of National Significance.

Related Information:

Evaluation and Dissemination Center: Innovative Models of HIV/AIDS Care 1994-2001
Papers and Presentations from the Cross-Cutting Evaluation of the HRSA HIV/AIDS Bureau's Special Projects of National Significance Cooperative Agreements on Innovative HIV/AIDS Care [1994 - 1999]