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1994.10.14 :  Model HIV Care Delivery Programs

Contact:  Shelly Burgess (HRSA)     (301) 443-3376
Friday, Oct. 14, 1994


                HRSA AWARDS $9.3 MILLION TO DEVELOP  
                  MODEL HIV CARE DELIVERY PROGRAMS

     HHS Secretary Donna E. Shalala today announced the 
award of $9.3 million in grant support to 27 organizations
throughout the United States to develop innovative HIV care delivery
programs that can serve as models for other areas in the country. 

     The grants are funded under the Special Projects of 
National Significance program, which is part of Title II of the Ryan
White Comprehensive AIDS Emergency Care Act.  Both the SPNS program
and the Ryan White CARE Act as a whole are administered by the
Health Resources and Services Administration's Bureau of Health
Resources Development.

     The SPNS program supports research on the best ways to 
deliver health and support services to underserved/hard-to-reach
people with HIV/AIDS.

     Today's announced grantees competed for funding under one of
four project categories:  (1) providing comprehensive health
services within one distinct setting; (2) providing coordinated care
to specific "mobile" populations; (3) reducing cultural, linguistic
or organizational barriers to care in defined geographical areas;
and (4) providing training and education programs for healthcare
providers to improve their knowledge of HIV and its treatment in 
rural, correctional or mental health settings.  No grants were
awarded under the second category.

     Secretary Shalala said, "Programs funded by SPNS grants 
directly address the 'changing face of AIDS' that we have been
seeing in this country.  The number of women, youths, minorities and
rural residents who are becoming infected with the AIDS virus rises
each year, and these model programs increase access to the health
care and support services they and their families desperately need."

     Since 1991, the first year of CARE Act funding, HRSA has
awarded more than $33 million to 72 SPNS grantees.

     HRSA is a Public Health Service agency under HHS.
     A list of the 27 grantees and award amounts follows:
              Grants for Primary Care Service Delivery
 
AIDS Healthcare Foundation, Los Angeles, Calif.             $250,000
East Boston Neighborhood Health Center, Massachusetts        340,000
Hektoen Institute for Medical Research, Chicago, Ill.        383,739
Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine, Baltimore, Md.  286,937
Larkin Street Services, San Francisco, Calif.                350,000
Missouri Dept. of Health, Jefferson City, Mo.                226,269
University of Nevada at Reno, Nevada                         190,365
New York State Dept. of Hlth/Hlth Rsrch., Albany, N.Y.       375,820
SUNY-Research Foundation at Brooklyn, New York               352,807
University of Vt. & St. Agricultural Coll., Burlington, Vt.  245,213
Visiting Nurse Assoc. of Los Angeles, California             343,028
Washington University, St. Louis, Mo.                        448,396

TOTAL                                                     $3,792,574


   Grants for Reducing Cultural, Linguistic and/or Organizational
                          Barriers to Care


Center for Women's Policy Studies, Washington, D.C.       $  333,043
Fortune Society, New York, N.Y.                              344,442
Haitian Community AIDS Outreach Project, Dorchester, Mass    252,586
Health Initiatives for Youth, San Francisco, Calif.          375,000
Indiana Community AIDS Action Network, Indianapolis, Ind.    210,000
Interamerican Coll. of Phys & Surgeons, New York, N.Y.       328,488
Michigan Protection and Advocacy Service, Lansing, Mich.     200,000
Outreach, Inc., Atlanta, Ga.                                 350,000
Prototypes, Culver City, Calif.                            1,113,300
University of Texas at San Antonio, Texas                    411,161
Well-Being Institute, Plymouth, Mich.                        492,518

TOTAL                                                     $4,410,538


     Grants for Provider Training and Education Models in Rural,
                Correctional or Mental Health Settings

University of Colorado Health Sciences Cntr, Denver, Colo. $ 318,088
Emory University, Atlanta, Ga.                               150,000
University of Mississippi Medical Center, Jackson, Miss.     410,666
University of Washington, Seattle, Wash.                     285,854

TOTAL                                                     $1,164,608

GRAND TOTAL                                               $9,367,720

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