*This is an archive page. The links are no longer being updated. 1992.10.15 : Grants -- Outreach Services for High AIDS Risk Contact: Tony Sims (30l) 443-5052 October 15, 1992 HHS Secretary Louis W. Sullivan, M.D., today announced $10 million in grants to 33 community-based programs to support outreach services to substance abusers at highest risk for AIDS and related diseases. The awards are being made by HHS' Office for Treatment Improvement to help implement demand reduction programs under President Bush's National Drug Control Strategy. The awards will support projects designed to demonstrate ways to: o identify high-risk substance abusers, such as injecting drug users and crack-cocaine users, and their sex partners to encourage them to enter treatment; o provide medical diagnostic services for HIV/AIDS and related illnesses; and o impart information and enhance skills to bring about behavioral changes most likely to decrease the risk of acquiring or transmitting HIV and related diseases. "The President and I have consistently asked the Congress to support an aggressive expansion of our treatment efforts. We very much need it," Dr. Sullivan said. "One study shows that 41 percent of injecting drug users had never been in treatment despite an average of 11 years of substance abuse. This finding indicates a continuing need to reach high-risk substance abusers and get them into treatment whenever possible." High-risk substance abusers and their sex partners currently represent about 32 percent of diagnosed AIDS cases in the United States, the second largest and one of the fastest growing risk groups for HIV infection. Estimates of the number of injecting drug users and other high-risk substance abusers in the United States infected with HIV today range as high as 400,000. "Increasingly, the spread of HIV is linked to intravenous drug use," said Governor Bob Martinez, director of the White House Office of National Drug Control Policy. "The best way to deal with this alarming trend is not by handing out syringes to drug addicts -- which merely helps to perpetuate their addiction -- but by supporting outreach programs that provide drug users with information and access to effective drug treatment. These outreach programs are a high priority of the National Drug Control Strategy, and we will continue to encourage more cities to undertake them as a response to the AIDS crisis." "Substance abuse treatment can reduce the spread of HIV among high-risk substance abusers, their sex partners and their children," said James Mason, M.D., HHS assistant secretary for Health and head of the U.S. Public Health Service. "And that is a very high priority." ### NOTE: See attached. OTI HIV-AIDS OUTREACH GRANTS, SEPTEMBER 30, 1992 -------------------------------------------------------------------------- # STATE CITY ORGANIZATION FUNDING LEVEL ___________________________________________________________________________ 1 AZ TUCSON CODAC BEHAVIORAL HEALTH $ 365,772 SERVICES OF PIMA CO 2 CA FRENCH CAMP SAN JOAQUIN COUNTY OFFICE OF SA 373,095 3 CA LOS ANGELES JWCH INSTITUTE, INC. 332,167 4 CA SAN FRANCISCO ASIAN AMERICAN RECOVERY SERVICES, INC. 334,104 5 CA SANTA ANA ORANGE COUNTY HEALTH CARE AGENCY 273,279 DA SERVICES 6 CA LOS ANGELES LA COUNTY DEPARTMENT OF HEALTH SERVICES 334,693 7 CA VENTURA PUBLIC HEALTH FOUNDATION OF LA COUNTY 354,402 8 CT HARTFORD HISPANIC HEALTH COUNCIL 319,327 9 DC WASHINGTON KOBA INSTITUTE 337,288 10 DC WASHINGTON WHITMAN-WALKER CLINIC, INC. 374,989 11 FL MIAMI SWITCHBOARD OF MIAMI, INC. 247,270 12 FL WINTER HAVEN TRI-COUNTY ADDICTIONS REHAB SERVICES 343,339 13 IL CHICAGO UNIVERSITY OF IL-SCHOOL OF PUBLIC HEALTH 308,985 14 IL CHICAGO TASC, INC. 192,022 15 IL CHICAGO HEKTOEN INSTITUTE FOR MEDICAL RESEARCH 331,879 16 IN INDIANAPOLIS THE HEALTH AND HOSPITAL CORP. OF MARION 301,804 COUNTY 17 NC WILMINGTON SOUTHEASTERN CENTER FOR MH, DD AND SAS 319,156 18 NV RENO NEVADA AIDS FOUNDATION 250,000 19 NY NEW YORK ASSOC. FOR DA PREVENTION AND TREATMENT 325,657 20 NY NEW YORK PROJECT RETURN FOUNDATION, INC. 296,159 21 NY BUFFALO BUFFALO COLUMBUS HOSPITAL 304,138 22 NY NEW YORK HISPANIC AIDS FORUM, INC. 375,000 23 OH DAYTON COMBINED HEALTH DISTRICT OF MONTGOMERY 169,618 24 OH CLEVELAND CLEVELAND TREATMENT CENTER 328,551 25 OR MEDFORD ON TRACK, INC. 194,327 26 OR PORTLAND MULTNOMAH COUNTY - HEALTH DEPARTMENT 330,811 27 PA PITTSBURGH ALLEGHENY COUNTY MHMRDA 307,007 28 PR RIO PIEDRAS PR DAAS- RESEARCH INSTITUTE 349,125 29 RI PROVIDENCE MARATHON OF RI, INC. 327,618 30 TX SAN ANTONIO THE U OF TEXAS-HEALTH SCIENCE CENTER- 324,561 SAN ANTONIO 31 TX HOUSTON AFFILIATED SYSTEMS CORPORATION 356,250 32 TX HOUSTON HOUSTON DEPT. OF HEALTH AND HUMAN 317,608 SERVICES 33 PA NEW BRITAIN BUCK CO. DRUG AND ALCOHOL 240,999 COMMISSION, INC. TOTAL $10,241,000