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Date: April 17, 1995 
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
Contact:  Bonnie Aikman, PHS/HRSA, (301) 443-3376

The 15 regional AIDS Education and Training Centers serve the 50 states, Puerto Rico and the Virgin Islands.

"This program provides AIDS education for more than 100,000 community health workers a year," Secretary Shalala said. "The program thus increases the number of health providers who can incorporate HIV care and prevention into their practices."

The regional centers, based in medical schools, university health centers and schools of public health, are located in cities and suburban areas with high numbers of AIDS patients. The centers are responsible for training providers in these areas as well as adjacent rural areas.

Philip R. Lee, M.D., assistant secretary for health and director of the Public Health Service, said, "This program has taken the lead in training health care workers who serve African-American and Hispanic communities, which have been disproportionately affected by the AIDS epidemic."

The program is administered by the Health Resources and Services Administration, one of eight PHS agencies within HHS.

HRSA Administrator Ciro V. Sumaya, M.D., said, "The regional centers have developed and sustained a broad-based network of providers trained in HIV care."

The awards, administered through cooperative agreements, also help fund HIV/AIDS information dissemination activities of the 15 centers. These include current data about drug trials and referrals. The awards also fund the National HIV Telephone Consultation Service (800-933-3413) and the Clinical Conference Call Series, which provide new HIV-related clinical information to primary care clinicians who treat AIDS patients.

Clinicians can obtain more information about the conference call series or register for it by faxing a request to Abe Macher, M.D., (fax no. 301-443-1719).

A list of the 15 centers and funding for FY 1995 is attached.

    AETC                       School                    Award

Florida AETC             University of Miami         $   939,941 

Pennsylvania AETC        University of Pittsburgh        818,882

Emory AIDS Training      Emory University
  Network                Atlanta, Ga.                    818,119

Mid-West AETC            University of Illinois
                         Chicago, Ill.                 1,082,598

Mid-Atlantic AETC        Virginia Commonwealth 
                         University, Richmond, Va.     1,285,207

New England AETC         University of Massachusetts 
                         Medical Center 
                         Worcester, Mass.                895,503

Mountain Plains AETC     University of Colorado 
                         Health Science Center  
                         Denver, Colo.                   749,666

Puerto Rico AETC         University of Puerto Rico
                         San Juan, Puerto Rico           532,616

Northwest AETC           University of Washington
                         Seattle, Wash.                  551,600

AETC for Texas and       University of Texas 
  Oklahoma               Health Science Center 
                         Houston, Texas                  815,775

New Jersey AETC          University of Medicine and
                         Dentistry of New Jersey 
                         Newark, N.J.                    778,657

Delta AETC               Louisiana State University 
                         Medical Center 
                         New Orleans, La.                495,189

New York/Virgin          Columbia University
  Islands AETC           New York, N.Y.                2,074,541

Great Lakes to           Wayne State University
  Tennessee Valley AETC  Detroit, Mich.                  639,314

Pacific AETC             Regents, University of 
                         California, San Francisco     3,260,791

     
          TOTAL                                      $15,738,399