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Health and Human Services Agency, Public Health Division, recommending the Board authorize the Chair to sign Amendment 6 to Agreement 7275-07/12-709 for Ryan White funding with County of Sacramento Department of Health and Human Services decreasing the maximum total payment amount to the County by $2,453 for a multi-year total of $830,105 to fund direct medical and support care services through the Ryan White Comprehensive Acquired Immunodeficiency Syndrome Resources Emergency Act for persons living with Human Immunodeficiency Virus and/or Acquired Immunodeficiency Syndrome.
FUNDING: Federal Ryan White Comprehensive Acquired Immunodeficiency Syndrome Resources Emergency (CARE) Act funds through Sacramento County.
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BUDGET SUMMARY:
Total Estimated Cost $830,105 (over 5 years)
Funding
Current Contract Amount $832,558
New Funding $
Savings $
Other $-2,453
Total Contract Amount $830,105
Change To Net County Cost $0
Fiscal Impact/Change to Net County Cost: There is no Net County Cost associated with this Amendment 6 to Agreement 7275-07/12-709 with Sacramento County. The decrease in the contract amount reflects the amount not expended in fiscal year (FY) 2010-2011 and does not affect the amount budgeted by the Health Services Department in FY 2011-2012.
Background: Congress created the Ryan White CARE Act in 1990, named for Ryan White, a teenager who contracted HIV through a blood transfusion and died after an eight-year struggle with the disease. The Ryan White CARE Act is a series of grant programs that fund treatment services for people with Human Immunodeficiency Virus (HIV) and/or Acquired Immunodeficiency Syndrome (AIDS) who are either uninsured or underinsured. Since its creation, the Act has been reauthorized multiple times, the latest being October 2009.
Sacramento County is the applicant/recipient for the Ryan White CARE Act funds for the eligible metropolitan...
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