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Two outpatient clinics serving the disenfranchised have adapted in creative ways to deliver community-based care to New Orleans. Charity Hospital's HIV Outpatient (HOP) Clinic, funded under the Ryan White Comprehensive AIDS Resources Emergency Act, responded to Hurricane Katrina by reconstituting itself with a much smaller staff. In the Algiers neighborhood, a new free clinic dubbed the Common Ground Health Clinic has drawn volunteer medical professionals from around the country. In the early days after Katrina, these clinics coalesced around the neediest populations. Today, they are moving from stopgap measures to sustainable models promoting continuity of care.

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Dr. Berggren is a teaching physician and primary care provider at the Charity HIV Outpatient Clinic in New Orleans.

An interview with Dr. Berggren and Dr. Tyler J. Curiel can be heard at www.nejm.org.

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