HHS Seeks Applicants for Grants to Improve Minority, Women's Health (7/07/04)


The Health and Human Services Department (HHS) has announced the availability of grants for programs to improve minority and women's health. HHS' Office of Minority Health plans to award an estimated $3.4 million in fiscal year 2004 grants under its Community Programs to Improve Minority Health, $2.5 million under its Bilingual/Bicultural Service Demonstration Program, and $3 million under its HIV/AIDS Health Promotion and Education Program.

HHS' Office of Women's Health plans to award several new five-year grants of up to $750,000 under its National Community Centers of Excellence in Women's Health program to nonprofit hospitals, community health centers and other community-based organizations working to strengthen linkages between programs and activities to reduce fragmentation in women's health services.

The application deadline is August 5 for the OMH grants and July 20 for the OWH grants. For more information, see the Federal Register notices under "Health and Human Services Department" at

http://a257.g.akamaitech.net/7/257/2422/06jun20041800/edocket.access.gpo.gov/2004/pdf/04-13893.pdf

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