
Acronyms
A
ACA – Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act
ACRN – AIDS Certified Registered Nurses
ACT – Ryan White HIV Treatment Modernization Act of 2006
ADAP – AIDS Drug Assistance Program
AETC – AIDS Education and Training Center
AIDS – Acquired Immunodeficiency Syndrome
APE – Administrative, Planning, and Evaluation
ART – Antiretroviral Therapy
ARV – Antiretrovirals
ASO – AIDS Services Organizations
B
BBS – Bethlehem Bright Smiles (MidEast PA Care and Advocacy Network service provider)
BOARD – State Board of Pharmacy
C
CAB – Consumer Advisory Board
CAPER – Consolidated Annual Performance and Evaluation Report
CARE Act – Ryan White Comprehensive AIDS Resources Emergency Act
CHS – Lehigh Valley Health Network Comprehensive Health Services
CCR5 – Chemokine Receptor 5
CDC – Centers for Disease Control and Prevention
CD4 – T-Cell test (Test for immune functioning)
CCWS – Co-County Wellness Services (MidEast PA Care and Advocacy Network service provider)
CM – Case Management
CMs – Case Managers
CMS – Center for Medicare and Medicaid Services
COLA – Cost of Living Adjustment
CPG – Community Planning Group
CQI – Continuous Quality Improvement
CW – CAREWare (Department of Health software to collect HIV services data)
D
DEBI – Diffusion of Effective Behavioral Interventions
E
EBI – Evidence-Based Interventions
EBS – Easton Bright Smiles (MidEast PA Care and Advocacy Network service provider)
EHC – Everyday Home Care (MidEast PA Care and Advocacy Network service provider)
EFA – Emergency Financial Assistance
EHARS – Electronic HIV/AIDS Reporting System
EIS – Early Intervention Services
EMA – Eligible Metropolitan Area
EMSA – Emerging Metropolitan Statistical Area
F
FACT – Fighting AIDS Continuously Together
FDA – Food and Drug Administration
FI – Fusion Inhibitors
FPL – Federal Poverty Level
FQHC – Federally Qualified Health Center
FY – Fiscal Year
G
GPHE – Geriatric Periodic Health Exam
H
HAART – Highly Active Antiretroviral Therapy
HAB – HIV/AIDS Bureau
HAV – Hepatitis A
HBC – Hepatitis B
HCV – Hepatitis C
HE/RR – Health Education/Risk Reduction
HHS – Department of Health and Human Services
HIP – Health Insurance Premium and Cost Sharing Assistance
HIV – Human Immunodeficiency Virus
HOPE – HOPE at St. Luke’s Hospital (MidEast PA Care and Advocacy Network service provider)
HOPWA – Housing Opportunities for Persons With AIDS
HPG – Pennsylvania HIV Planning Group
HPV – Human Papillomavirus
HRH – High-Risk Heterosexuals
HRSA – U.S. Health Resources and Services Administration
HUD - Department of Housing and Urban Development
I
IDG – Interventions Delivered to Groups (A prevention/education service)
IDI – Interventions Delivered to Individuals (A prevention/education service)
IDU – Intravenous Drug Users
INSTIs – Integrase Strand Transfer Inhibitors
IRRC – Pennsylvania Regulatory Review Commission
L
LGBTQ – Lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender and queer
LV – Lehigh Valley
M
MA – Medical Assistance
MAI–TCE – Minority AIDS Initiative Targeted Capacity Expansion
MAWD – Medical Assistance for Workers with Disabilities
MCD – Minor Civil Division
MCM – Medical Case Management
MCO – Managed Care Organizations
MNT – Medical Nutrition Therapy
MPLS – MidPenn Legal Services (MidEast PA Care and Advocacy Network service provider)
MSA – Metropolitan Statistical Area
MSM – Men who have sex with men
MUA – Medically Underserved Areas
MUP – Medically Underserved Population
MMWR – Morbidity and Mortality Weekly Report
N
NHAS – National HIV/AIDS Strategy
NIH – National Institutes of Health
NMAC – National Minority AIDS Council
NMCM – Non-Medical Case Management
NNRTIs – Non-nucleoside Reverse Transcriptase Inhibitors
NPLS – North Penn Legal Services (MidEast PA Care and Advocacy Network service provider)
NQC – National Quality Center
NRTIs – Nucleoside Reverse Transcriptase Inhibitors
O
OTC – Over the counter
OAHS – Outpatient /Ambulatory Health Services
OI – Opportunistic Infection
P
PA – Pennsylvania
PA-CAO – Pennsylvania County Assistance Office
PA-DHS – Pennsylvania Department of Human Services
PA-DOH – Pennsylvania Department of Health
PA-DOC – Pennsylvania Department of Corrections
PA-ETC – Philadelphia PA AIDS Education Training Center
PA-NEDSS – Pennsylvania version of the National Electronic Disease Surveillance System
PCP – Primary Care Physicians
PCRS – Partner Counseling and Referral Services
PHP – Permanent Housing Placement
PHS – Public Health Service
PIs – Protease Inhibitors
PIC – Prevention is Care (a CDC campaign targeting physicians)
PLWA – Person(s) Living With AIDS
PLWH – Person(s) Living With HIV
PM – Performance Measures
PEP – Post-Exposure Prophylaxis (medicine to prevent HIV after a possible exposure)
PrEP – Pre-Exposure Prophylaxis (medicine that can reduce the chance of getting HIV)
Q
QI – Quality Improvement
QM – Quality Management
R
RFI – Request for Information
RFP – Request for Proposals
RSR – Ryan White Services Report
RW – Ryan White
RWHAP – Ryan White HIV/AIDS Programs
S
SAM – Self Assessment Module
SAMHSA – Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration
SAS – Substance Abuse Services
SCP – Service Coordination Plan
SNAP – Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program
SPBP – Special Pharmaceutical Benefits Program
SS – Support Services
SSD – Social Security Disability
SSI – Social Security Income
STI – Sexually Transmitted Infections
STRMU – Short-term Rent, Mortgage, and Utility Assistance
SWS – Schuylkill Wellness Services (MidEast PA Care and Advocacy Network service provider. SWS is under the umbrella of CCWS)
T
TA – Technical Assistance
TasP – Treatment as Prevention
TBRA – Tenant-Based Rental Assistance
T Cell – Thymus-derived lymphocytes
TGA – Transitional Grant Area
TOT – Training of Trainers
TPI – Transitional Planning Initiative
TQL – Training of Quality Leaders
U
U=U – Undetectable=Untransmittable
US – United States
V
VYH – Valley Youth House (A MidEast PA Care and Advocacy Network service provider)
VL – Viral Load

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