What does the federal Ryan White CARE Act fund?

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• ACare for underserved rural and urban populations
• BSkin cancer screening programs
• CSchool-based health services in predominantly minority neighborhoods
• DDevelopment of treatment and care options for persons with HIV and AIDS

• A
  5% (1)
• D
  95% (19)

Explanation

D is correct because the Ryan White Comprehensive AIDS Resources Emergency (CARE) Act, first passed in 1990, is specifically designed to fund HIV/AIDS care, treatment, and support services for low-income, uninsured, and underserved individuals living with HIV/AIDS - making it the largest federally funded program dedicated entirely to this population.

Why the distractors are wrong:

• A is a distractor because, while Ryan White clients may include rural and urban populations, the Act is not a general underserved-populations program - it is HIV/AIDS-specific.
• B (skin cancer screening) has no connection to Ryan White; skin cancer programs fall under different public health funding streams.
• C (school-based minority health services) is associated with programs like Title I or community health center grants, not Ryan White.

Memory tip: Think Ryan White - the Act was named after Ryan White, the teenage hemophiliac who contracted HIV through a blood transfusion and became a national advocate before his death in 1990. His story was entirely about HIV/AIDS, so the Act named after him funds HIV/AIDS care - nothing else.

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