FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
Friday, September 27, 2002 |
CONTACT:
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HHS Awards $9.5 Million to Provide Early Intervention
Services
for People Living with HIV/AIDS
HHS Secretary Tommy G. Thompson today announced 27 new grants totaling
$9.5 million to help communities provide outpatient and primary care
services for low-income, medically underserved Americans who are living
with HIV/AIDS or are at risk for contracting the virus.
“Many people who are at risk for getting HIV don’t realize
it.” Secretary Thompson said. “Others are HIV-positive but
don’t know it. These grants help ensure that HIV prevention
counseling, testing and other needed primary care services are available
to help HIV-negative people stay that way. They will also help
HIV-positive people get tested and into treatment early so they can
limit the progression of the disease.”
Today’s grants help ensure that early HIV care is targeted to
those communities that need it most, particularly in rural and remote
areas and inner cities. In addition to counseling, testing and
referral, and medical evaluation and clinical care, the grants also
support oral health care, adherence counseling, nutritional counseling,
outpatient mental health, outpatient substance abuse, and appropriate
referral for specialty and subspecialty care.
Grant recipients include community-based clinics and medical centers,
hospitals, public health departments and universities in 17 states.
The grants are awarded under the Title III Early Intervention Services
program of the Ryan White Comprehensive AIDS Resources Emergency (CARE)
Act, which is managed by the Health Resources and Services Administration’s
HIV/AIDS Bureau.
HHS’ CARE Act programs help an estimated 530,000 poor and uninsured
individuals with HIV/AIDS obtain primary health care, support services
and life-sustaining medications each year. Since the CARE Act was first
funded in fiscal year 1991, nearly $10 billion has been awarded in grants
to provide needed health care and associated services. A list of the
fiscal year 2002 Title III Early Intervention Services grant awards
is below.
| FY 2002 Title III Early
Intervention Services Grants |
| Organization |
City |
State |
Amount |
| Open Door Community Health Center |
Arcata |
Calif. |
$330,000 |
| Catalyst Foundation |
Lancaster |
Calif. |
330,000 |
| Tarzana Treatment Center |
Tarzana |
Calif. |
330,000 |
| Solano County Health and Social Services Department |
Vallejo |
Calif. |
350,000 |
| Del Norte Clinics |
Yuba City |
Calif. |
350,000 |
| Pueblo Community Health Center |
Pueblo West |
Colo. |
350,000 |
| Generations Family Health Center |
Willimantic |
Conn. |
330,000 |
| Manatee County Rural Health Services, Inc. |
Parrish |
Fla. |
544,091 |
| AIDGwinnett, Inc. |
Lawrenceville |
Ga. |
350,000 |
| Cobb County Board of Health |
Marietta |
Ga. |
240,199 |
| Floyd County Board of Health |
Rome |
Ga. |
330,000 |
| Capitol City Family Health Center |
Baton Rouge |
La. |
450,000 |
| Health Education Resource Organization |
Baltimore |
Md. |
300,000 |
| Peoples Community Health Center |
Baltimore |
Md. |
350,000 |
| G.A. Carmichael Family Health Center |
Canton |
Miss. |
330,000 |
| Missoula City-County Health Department |
Missoula |
Mont. |
220,000 |
| Robeson Health Care Corp. |
Fairmont |
N.C. |
350,000 |
| Catawba Valley Medical Center |
Hickory |
N.C. |
361,720 |
| Trustees of Dartmouth College |
Hanover |
N.H. |
350,000 |
| Visiting Nurse Association of Central Jersey Community
Health Center |
Asbury Park |
N.J. |
300,000 |
| Interfaith Medical Center |
Brooklyn |
N.Y. |
450,000 |
| Allegheny-Singer Research Institute |
Allegheny |
Pa. |
350,000 |
| Hope for the Pee Dee |
Florence |
S.C. |
436,420 |
| Sandhills Medical Foundation |
Jefferson |
S.C. |
330,000 |
| Spartanburg Regional Health System |
Spartanburg |
S.C. |
450,000 |
| Chattanooga CARES AIDS Resource Center |
Chattanooga |
Tenn. |
300,000 |
| Planned Parenthood of El Paso |
El Paso |
Texas |
330,000 |
| Total:
$9,492,430 |
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