Ryan White Program

Services provided by the CARE Act:

As an academic medical institution, the Medical College of Georgia (MCG) has a long tradition of providing high quality medical services including HIV and AIDS care for Georgia’s rural and indigent populations. Staffing includes six Infectious Diseases/Internal Medicine faculty, two fellows, one physician’s assistant, two registered nurses, one LPN, an adherence educator, a patient assistance analyst, program coordinator, and other health care professionals. 

The program provides outpatient services such as HIV counseling, testing and referral services; appropriate medical evaluation/clinical care; and other primary care services, including oral health care, adherence counseling, nutritional counseling, outpatient mental health, outpatient substance abuse; and appropriate referral for specialty and subspecialty care.  Staff facilitate access to Georgia’s AIDS drug’s assistance program and to the manufacturers’ programs for the indigent.