Ryan White 2012 Grantee Meeting

Client-level data reported in the Ryan White Services Report (RSR) permit HRSA/HAB to monitor the outcomes of HIV/AIDS clients receiving care and treatment through RWHAP grantees and/or providers; report to Congress and the Department of Health and Human Services concerning the HIV/AIDS epidemic and the RWHAP; and assess progress towards achieving the goals of the National HIV/AIDS strategy. All of these goals require unduplicated data, combining client-level data across providers. This session will describe HAB’s approach to cleaning, deduplicating and merging the client-level RSR data to develop an estimate of the unduplicated number of clients served by RWHAP grantees and providers. The workshop will then present the first results on characteristics of the RWHAP clients, the services they receive, and the program’s success in meeting HAB’s performance measures.

Learning Objectives:

• Understand how their RSR data are cleaned, deduplicated and merged to create unduplicated counts and client level service data;
• Learn the characteristics of the RWHAP clients, the services they receive, the degree to which clients receive services from multiple providers, and how the RWHAP has performed on measures established for reporting to Congress and other stakeholders;
• Understand the importance of accurate demographic data, eUCIs and other RSR data in creating an accurate profile of the Ryan White Program.