HHS Operating and Staff Division Grant Officials : List of HHS Operating and Staff Division Grant Officials Strategic Plan FY 2018 - 2022 Every four years, HHS updates its Strategic Plan, which describes its work to address complex, multifaceted, and evolving health and human services issues.  An agency strategic plan is one of three main elements required by the Government Performance and Results Act (GPRA) of 1993 (P.L. 103-62) and the GPRA Modernization Act of 2010 (P.L. 111-352).  An agency strategic plan defines its mission, goals, and the means by which it will measure its progress in addressing specific national problems over a four-year period. For the period FY 2018—2022, HHS is publishing its Strategic Plan as a Web document, which will be updated periodically to reflect the Department’s strategies, actions, and progress toward its goals. The Web version of the Strategic Plan, rather than focusing on a static set of performance measures, provides priorities, accompli...

HHS Budget Investments in Nevada : Learn how much HHS invests in Nevada. HHS Budget Investments in Nevada HHS invested  $29.5 Billion  in Nevada to enhance the health and well-being of Americans at every stage of life by delivering and financing effective health and human services and fostering sound, sustained advances in the sciences underlying medicine, public health, and social services. Investment Highlights FY2009-2014  Safe and Strong Families HHS invested  $1.32 Billion  in Nevada to help provide low income families, people with disabilities, and older adults with the opportunity to live with dignity, independence, and participate fully in American life.  Early Childhood Development High-quality early child care, education opportunities, and parent support help prepare our nation’s youngest learners for entry into formal schooling. HHS invested  $364.1 Million  in Nevada to help children birth to age 5 living in low-income families achieve...

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SCHS Professor Awarded $3.3M NIH Grant for HIV Transmission Prevention in Nigeria | Research and Economic Development | University of Nevada, Las Vegas The National Institutes of Health (NIH) has awarded a five-year, $3.3 million grant to Dr. Echezona Ezeanolue, professor and director of the UNLV School of Community Health Sciences’ Global Public Health and Implementation Science Initiative, for his Intervention for Sustained Testing and Retention (iSTAR) project. iSTAR is an integrated community- and clinic-based intervention that is designed to test, link, engage, and sustain HIV-infected women in care. The primary goal of the cluster randomized comparative effectiveness trial project is to assess the difference in linkage and engagement rates between iSTAR and the clinic-based approach (CG). The project also seeks to assess differences in retention and viral suppression rates. “We are hoping to reduce HIV treatment dropout, increase retention, and reduce mother-to-child transmiss...

Revealing data shows huge racial divide in HIV prevention meds usage