The Center for Medicare and Medicaid Innovation has awarded $8.7 million to VillageCare, a New York City community-based, not-for-profit organization serving people with post-acute and chronic care, to help HIV/AIDS patients by providing a multi-layered and tailored intervention aimed at improving their medication adherence through an online platform and text messaging service.

When VillageCare opened Rivington House in 1995, it was the final stop for many AIDS patients. The main task was to comfort them, relieve their physical and emotional pain and ease their final days. Most received care for just a few weeks or a few months. Very few remained a year. That was the reality of AIDS at the time. Thanks to the myriad of advances in AIDS care and research over the last two decades, the wide majority of people with AIDS today live long, productive and healthy lives The need for a sin