A Guide to Fiscal Year 1991 Federal Funding for HIV Disease: How Dollars are Spent How to Access Them

The MCHB's FY '91 HIV budget is $19,518,000.
These monies are directed to Pediatric AIDS Health
Care Demonstration Projects and Pediatric AIDS
Comprehensive Centers to demonstrate effective
infecion prevention methods and develop communitybased, family-centered coordinated services for infeced infants and children. In addition, grants are made
for projects focusing on National Issues of High
Priority in Pediatric AIDS.
These services may also be supported by programs
authorized under Title II of the CARE Act, which
stipulates that 15% of formula grant monies received
by states be used to provide services for infants,
women and children.
For more information on MCHB HIV programs,
contact:
Merle McPherson, M.D.,
AIDS Coordinator/Children with Special
Health Needs
301/443-2350
In addition, PHS regional program directors and
grant officers listed in Appendix D are able to provide specific information on MCHB programs and
extramural funding projects.
Bureau of Health Professions
The Bureau of Health Professions (BHPr) monitors
and directs development of health resources by working to improve the education, training, distribution,
utilization, supply and quality of the nation's health
personnel.
BHPr focuses resources on priority areas such as:
increasing the supply of practitioners trained in
primary care; improving the distribution of health
professionals geographically and by specialty;
improving access to health careers for minorities and

the disadvantaged; strengthening nursing education;
increasing numbers and improving the capability of
health professionals to serve an increasingly large
elderly population; administering three major student
loan and other student assistance programs; monitoring the supply, location and effectiveness of health
professionals; focusing on quality assurance and risk
management issues; and addressing HIV/AIDS and
substance abuse shortcomings in health professions
education.
The BHPr supports the Commission on the
National Nursing Shortage and the Council on
Graduate Medical Education, and administers
multidisciplinary programs such as the Area Health
Education Centers, the Geriatric Education Centers,
and Model Education Projects.
The BHPr FY '91 HIV budget is $17,029,000,
which covers the administration of the AIDS
Regional Education and Training Centers Program.
This program enables regional training centers to
develop and provide education and training to
primary care providers and others on the treatment
and prevention of AIDS. The program is conducted
in collaboration with health professional schools, local
hospitals, health departments, CBOs, and professional societies.
For more information on the AIDS ETC program,
contact:
Cherry Tsutsumida, AIDS Coordinator
301/443-6817
In addition, the HRSA regional program directors
and grant officers listed in Appendix D can provide
you with information about BHPr's HIV activities,
including the ETC program.
*A valuable resource on the CARE Act is the September 1990
Aids Information Exchange, published by the U.S. Conference of
Mayors. See Appendix C for the address to obtain a copy.

SLCOHOL, DRUG ABUSE, AND MENTAL HEALTH ADMINISTRATION

The Alcohol, Drug Abuse, and Mental Health
Adminstration (ADAMHA) leads Federal efforts to
reduce national health problems resulting from the
abuse of alcohol and drugs. It works to foster
improvements in the mental health of Americans
through increased knowledge and effective strategies
to deal with health problems and issues associated
with mental illness, alcohol abuse and alcoholism, and
drug abuse.
ADAMHA is made up of three institutes: the Nat
ional Institute on Drug Abuse (NIDA), the National
Institute of Mental Health (NIMH), the National
Institute on Alcohol Abuse and Alcoholism (NIAAA).
Another HIV-related component of ADAMHA is the
Office for Substance Abuse Prevention (OSAP)
which seeks to reduce and eliminate alcohol and
substance abuse among high-risk youth and other
target populations through the development of improved prevention and intervention programs. (See
Figure 1.6)

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