Hhs Awards $23 Million To Help Communities Provide Early Hiv/Aids Care
Grants totaling $23 million to help communities provide outpatient and primary care services for low- income and medically underserved Americans who are living with HIV/AIDS or are at risk for contracting the virus have been released by the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS).
The awards include one new grant for $426,624 to Centra Health Inc., in Lynchburg, Va. The remaining 44 awards are competitive continuation 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.
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. Recipients include community-based clinics and medical centers, hospitals, public health departments and universities in 22 states and the District of Columbia.