Five grantees continued linkage to care activities in some capacity after project funding ended.
She says she envisions public and private college students rallying to make continued linkages between rising tuition, student debt and joblessness.
The Alabama CBO also used multiple funding sources to continue providing linkage services using one of the original linkage coordinators as a dual linkage/standard case manager.
The state HIV/AIDS programs in Missouri and Virginia were able to use Ryan White funding to continue supporting linkage program activities.
In contrast, the three CBOs that did not continue the linkage program all experienced major challenges establishing and maintaining reliable relationships with local health departments.
The effort to continue providing linkage services in South Carolina was successful because it used multiple funding streams (CDC, Ryan White Part B, and Minority AIDS Initiative) and employed one of the linkage coordinators from the ARTAS demonstration project.
The five CBOs that were able to continue the linkage program after project funding ended had long-standing, cooperative relationships with local health departments, resulting in a steady influx of recently diagnosed HIV-positive persons.
Strong inter-agency partnerships were a defining characteristic of sites that continued the linkage program after CDC funding ended.
These new families continue to support linkage to chromosome 18.
