HHS Secretary Mike Leavitt today announced 12 grants and 14 cooperative agreements totaling $8.6 million to fund oral health care, training and technical assistance for medically underserved populations affected by HIV/AIDS.  
 
Twelve grants totaling $3,316,669 are being awarded through the Community-Based Dental Partnership Program of the Ryan White Comprehensive AIDS Resources Emergency (CARE) Act.  The program supports oral health care for underserved rural and urban HIV-positive populations and training for dental providers.  
 
Fourteen cooperative agreements will provide training and technical assistance to CARE Act grantees and support peer education and training.   These include eight cooperative agreements totaling $2.4 million to AIDS service organizations to develop technical assistance for CARE Act grantees, and two agreements totaling $910,000 that target technical assistance to women, infants, children, youth and families under Title IV of the CARE Act. 
 
The remaining four cooperative agreements, totaling almost $2 million and funded under the Minority AIDS Initiative Fund, will support three Peer Education Training Sites and one Resource and Evaluation Center.  These entities provide technical assistance and training to HIV/AIDS peer educators and the organizations that employ them.  The objective is to increase the number of HIV/AIDS peer treatment educators within CARE Act-funded programs.
 
“These grants and cooperative agreements reflect the broad continuum of care that is so essential in caring for and treating those living with HIV/AIDS, and the importance of providing technical assistance to achieve optimal care,” said Secretary Leavitt. 
 
Since FY 2001, the Bush administration has spent more than $9.85 billion in CARE Act funding to help more than 571,000 individuals access life-sustaining care and services each year.   President Bush has requested nearly $2.1 billion for the CARE Act in FY 2006, an increase of more than $275 million over the FY 2001 appropriation.  CARE Act programs are administered by HHS’ Health Resources and Services Administration and its HIV/AIDS Bureau. 
 
Lists of awards are attached.
 
 

Ryan White CARE Act Fiscal Year 2005 Community-Based Dental Partnership Awards
Organization	City	State	Award
Loma Linda University	Loma Linda	Calif.	$300,000
University of Colorado Health Science Center	Denver	Colo.	252,426
Nova Southeastern University	Ft. Lauderdale	Fla.	184,747
University of Illinois at Chicago	Chicago	Ill.	286,060
University of Louisville	Louisville	Ky.	359,572
Louisiana State University HCS School of Dentistry	New Orleans	La.	403,042
Trustees of Boston University	Boston	Mass.	300,000
University of Mississippi Medical Center	Jackson	Miss.	200,629
University of Medicine & Dentistry of New Jersey	Newark	N.J.	311,268
Lutheran Medical Center	Brooklyn	N.Y.	194,603
The Trustees of Columbia University	New York	N.Y.	273,535
Oregon Health & Sciences University	Portland	Ore.	250,787
Sub-total:			$3,316,669

 
 

Ryan White CARE Act Fiscal Year 2005 National Training and Technical Assistance Cooperative Agreements
Organization	City	State	Award
Academy for Educational Development	Washington	D.C.	$304,450
Academy for Educational Development	Washington	D.C.	300,000
AIDS Action Foundation	Washington	D.C.	300,000
CAEAR Coalition Foundation, Inc.	Washington	D.C.	300,000
National Assn. of State & Territorial AIDS Directors	Washington	D.C.	300,000
National Minority AIDS Council	Washington	D.C.	300,000
Cicatelli Associates	New York	N.Y.	300,000
JSI Research & Training Institute, Inc.	New York	N.Y.	300,000
Sub-total:			$2,404,450

 

Ryan White CARE Act Fiscal Year 2005 Training and Technical Assistance Cooperative Agreements Targeting Title IV Grantees
Organization	City	State	Award
AIDS Alliance for Children, Youth & Families	Washington	D.C.	$700,000
HIV/AIDS National Resource Center, University of Medicine and Dentistry of New Jersey	Newark	N.J.	210,000
Sub-total:			$910,000

 
 

Fiscal Year 2005 Peer Education Training Sites & Resource Evaluation Center Cooperative Agreements
Organization	City	State	Award
Center for Health Training (PETS)	Oakland	Calif.	$514,199
American Red Cross St. Louis Area Chapter (PETS)	St. Louis	Mo.	450,800
Health Watch Information & Promotion Services, Inc. (REC)	New York	N.Y.	499,863
Trustees of Columbia University (PETS)	New York	N.Y.	483,660
Sub-total:			$1,948,522
TOTAL:			$8,579,641