PROVIDENCE – More than $3.4 million in federal funding to enhance HIV testing and prevention programs has been awarded to the R.I. Executive Office of Health & Human Services, U.S. Sen. Jack F. Reed announced.
The funds are from the Ryan White HIV/AIDS program.
The Ryan White CARE Act was first enacted in 1990. It was reauthorized in 2009 with Reed’s help.
Thanks to federal-local partnerships established by law, the Ryan White HIV/AIDS Program works with cities, states and local community-based organizations to provide services to an estimated 536,000 people nationwide each year who do not have sufficient health care coverage or financial resources to cope with the HIV disease.
The federal funding is targeted to encourage outreach and testing. It requires that 75 percent of funding be spent on medical services such as medications, outpatient and ambulatory medical services, mental health services and home health care.
