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News Release

HHS AWARDS $23 MILLION TO HELP COMMUNITIES PROVIDE
EARLY HIV/AIDS CARE

HHS Secretary Tommy G. Thompson today announced 45 grants totaling $23 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.

"These grants help community-based organizations reach out to those who may be HIV-positive but don't know it, and get them into care," Secretary Thompson said. "Early and continuous care can help these individuals live longer, more productive lives."

Today's awards are competitive continuation grants and new grants for existing service areas. The 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.

"HIV/AIDS continues to grow among traditionally underserved and vulnerable groups and people of color -- women and youth, in particular, remain disproportionately affected by the epidemic," said Elizabeth M. Duke, administrator of HHS' Health Resources and Services Administration (HRSA). "Today's grants provide services that many of these people can't get anywhere else -- either because they can't pay or don't qualify, or because the services themselves aren't available.

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 HRSA's HIV/AIDS Bureau.

Grant recipients include community-based clinics and medical centers, hospitals, public health departments and universities in 22 states and the District of Columbia. Twenty of today's grants went to community health centers, which deliver primary and preventive care to patients regardless of their ability to pay.

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 $13.7 billion has been awarded in grants to provide needed health care and associated services. A list of the fiscal year 2003 Title III Early Intervention Services grant awards is below.

Title III Early Intervention Services Grants
Name of Organization	City	State	Funding
University of Alabama at Birmingham	Birmingham	Ala.	$508,562
Mobile County Health Dept./Family Oriented Primary Health Care Clinic	Mobile	Ala.	694,750
Kino Community Hospital	Tucson	Ariz.	220,590
Catholic Healthcare West/C.A.R.E. Program/St. Mary Med. Ctr.	Long Beach	Calif.	869,698
Univ. of Calif. San Diego Med. Ctr./Owen Clinic	San Diego	Calif.	730,167
Santa Barbara County Health Care Services	Santa Barbara	Calif.	364,640
Sonoma County Health Services Department	Santa Rosa	Calif.	388,936
Family & Medical Counseling	Washington	D.C.	646,005
Christiana Care Health Services	Wilmington	Del.	694,406
Economic Opportunity Family Health Ctr.	Miami	Fla.	795,825
Albany Area Primary Health/Rural HIV Model	Albany	Ga.	838,387
Glynn County Board of Health	Brunswick	Ga.	333,912
Columbus Department of Public Health	Columbus	Ga.	420,000
Siouxland Community Health Center	Sioux City	Iowa	273,630
Southern Illinois Healthcare Foundation	Centreville	Ill.	590,260
Access Community Health Network	Chicago	Ill.	375,000
Erie Family Health Ctr./Integrated Care Consortium	Chicago	Ill.	372,606
University of Louisville Research FND	Louisville	Ky.	623,232
Charity Hospital Medical Center	New Orleans	La.	580,600
Greater Lawrence Family Health Center	Lawrence	Mass.	577,525
Cambridge Health Alliance	Somerville	Mass.	581,788
Minneapolis Medical Research Foundation	Minneapolis	Minn.	485,589
Deporres Delta Ministries	Marks	Miss.	366,317
Morris Heights Health Center	Bronx	N.Y.	765,000
Brooklyn Plaza Med. Ctr./Rising Heights Program	Brooklyn	N.Y.	474,088
Joseph P. Addabbo Family Health Center	Far Rockaway	N.Y.	435,793
Betances Health Center	New York	N.Y.	645,602
Settlement Health and Medical Services	New York	N.Y.	301,489
St. Luke's -Roosevelt Hospital	New York	N.Y.	648,840
New Hanover Regional Medical Center	Wilmington	N.C.	359,551
Columbus AIDS Task Force	Columbus	Ohio	481,976
AIDS Care Group	Chester	Pa.	473,078
Hahnemann University Ambulatory Care Services	Philadelphia	Pa.	684,175
St. Joseph Medical Center	Reading	Pa.	352,040
Richland Community Health Care Assn.	Columbia	S.C.	791,090
Low Country Health Care System, Inc.	Fairfax	S.C.	485,400
New Horizon Family Health Services, Inc.	Greenville	S.C.	500,000
Regional Medical Center at Memphis	Memphis	Tenn.	250,000
Comprehensive Care Center	Nashville	Tenn.	400,000
INOVA Health Systems	Fairfax	Va.	668,360
MediCorp Health System/Mary Washington Hospital	Fredericksburg	Va.	255,864
Virginia Commonwealth University Office of Sponsored Programs	Richmond	Va.	456,301
Country Doctor Community Health Center	Seattle	Wash.	427,824
Yakima Valley Farm Workers Clinic/New Hope Program	Yakima	Wash.	356,220
Milwaukee Health Services	Milwaukee	Wisc.	608,535
Total			$23,153,651

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Last Revised: July 1, 2003