Massachusetts Community AIDS Resource Enhancement (MassCARE)

The MassCARE (Massachusetts Community AIDS Resource Enhancement) Program provides access to coordinated, comprehensive, family-centered, culturally and linguistically competent counseling, testing, and care for individuals living with HIV. MassCARE and similar programs around the country are designed to make care available to as many infected children, adolescents, women, and families as possible by promoting early identification and enhancing available care. It is funded under Part D of the Ryan White Care Act.

Key Components of MassCARE

• Medical and care coordination services offered by a team of health care providers (available at five sites statewide):

  • Confidential HIV counseling and testing
  • Access to HIV-related medical care, clinical trials, primary pediatric care and support services in the community
  • Case management, including care coordination to ensure HIV positive children, youth, and women are linked to early HIV care and support services
  • Outreach and training to help providers integrate HIV counseling and testing into routine prenatal and women's health care
  • Technical assistance to help providers give high quality care to pregnant women and adolescents who are HIV positive or at-risk for HIV infection

• Family Support Initiatives (available to families throughout the state):

  • Family Advisory Network (FAN)
  • MASSSTYLE ( Massachusetts Success Through Youth Leadership & Empowerment)
  • Annual family health & fitness fair
  • MassCARE newsletter
  • Peer support and advocacy for HIV positive women and adolescents

Our target population is children, adolescents, women and family members living with HIV, providers of women's health care, maternal and child health program staff, HIV positive pregnant women, and parenting women and adolescents.

• Moving On Positively: A Guide For Youth, Caregivers, and Providers  file size 4MB file size 7MB
• Moving On Positively: A Guide For Youth, Caregivers, and Providers in Spanish  file size 4MB file size 7MB
• Moving on Positively: A Guide for Youth, Caregivers and Providers Order Form  file size 7MB

• Clinical Advisory Update - Routine HIV Counseling and Testing of Pregnant Women (PDF) 

Comment on Our Key Components, Activities and Family Support Initiatives

• Public Comments

Contact Information

Sandra Broughton, Director, MassCARE
Bureau of Family Health and Nutrition
250 Washington Street, 5th floor
Boston, MA 02108
phone: 617-994-9819
fax: 617-624-5990
email: sandra.broughton@state.ma.us

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This information is provided by the Division for Perinatal, Early Childhood, and Special Health Needs within the Department of Public Health.