Part 1: Agenda Comparison Grid
Use this Agenda Comparison Grid to document information about the population health/healthcare issue your selected and the presidential agendas. By completing this grid, you will develop a more in depth understanding of your selected issue and how you might position it politically based on the presidential agendas.
You will use the information in the Part 1: Agenda Comparison Grid to complete the remaining Part 2 and Part 3 of your Assignment.
| Identify the Population Health concern you selected. | HIV/AIDS patients | ||
| Describe the Population Health concern you selected and the factors that contribute to it. |
Human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) is a lentivirus that causes AIDS when not treated. HIV/AIDS is a major global concern due to due to cost, health burden, and deaths attributed to it. Globally, 35 million people are estimated to be living with HIV of which 1.1M are Americans as women form m25% of those infected. Annually, up to 50,000 new diagnoses are recorded in the USA with a prevalence rate of 0.23% (Hiers, 2020). an estimated $20 billion is spent by the USA government for the prevention and care of HIV patients. Treating and preventing HIV is faced with major threats such as increasing intravenous drug users, increased stigma related to the disease, poor education about safe sex, lack of access to testing kits, preventive measures, and incases to care, and lack of awareness about HIV (HIV Basics, 2021). Though there is no cure, there is hope to reduce infection rates if basis prevention strategies are put in place. Those preventive measures should be encouraged in those who are at increased risk of contracting and spreading the disease including gay men, intravenous drug users, and commercial sex workers. |
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| Administration (President Name) | President Biden | President Trump | President Obama |
| Describe the administrative agenda focus related to this issue for the current and two previous presidents. | He empowered initiative for ending the HIV epidemic as championed by President Trump. The agenda is to reduce the HIV infection rate by 75% come 2025. | He came up with a campaign called “Ending HIV epidemic in the USA by 2030”. The initiative aimed at reducing HIV infection by 75% by 2025 and 90% by 2030 (HIV Basics, 2021). The main ideas of the agenda are to increase prevention measures, early diagnosis, timely treatment, and appropriate response to the pandemic. | He campaigned for the National HIV/AIDS Strategy (NHAS). The goals of the strategy included reducing incidences of HIV, increase access to care, reducing health disparities related to HIV, and improving Coordinated National response (US Preventive Services Task Force et al., 2019). |
| Identify the allocations of financial and other resources that the current and two previous presidents dedicated to this issue. | He intends to use $800million to fight HIV in the USA. It is estimated that $25 billion will be used in fighting HIV globally. | He allocated $291 million for the agenda. $140 million were allocated to the center of disease prevention to collaborate with other local health sectors to respond to epidemic and increase prevention strategies (Hiers, 2020). $120 million for Health Resources &service administration to provide care to infected individuals through Ryan White HIV program. Other funds were allocated to the at-risk population to access care. | $50 billion was allocated to fight the HIV pandemic globally. |
| Explain how each of the presidential administrations approached the issue. | The strategies are related to those used to integrate Trump`s and Obama`s initiatives. Increasing testing, linking patients to care, early initiation of care, early diagnos
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