Congressman Cohen Announces $1.4 Million in U.S. Health and Human Services Grants
Funding for Eye Research at St. Jude, Shelby County Ryan White Program
WASHINGTON – Congressman Steve Cohen (TN-9) today announced two U.S. Department of Health and Human Services grants totaling $1,447,636. St. Jude Children’s Research Hospital will receive $606,034 for research on diseases of the retina from the National Eye Institute. Shelby County’s Ryan White HIV/AIDS program will receive $841,600 for its continuing efforts to end the HIV epidemic.
Congressman Cohen made the following statement:
“I am pleased to see this federal investment in the health of our community. St. Jude is always making discoveries, and this grant will continue that progress with eye diseases. The funding for Shelby County’s Ryan White program is critical because the Memphis region has one of the highest HIV rates in the country.”
The Ryan White HIV/AIDS Program provides a comprehensive system of care that includes primary medical care and essential support services for people living with HIV who are uninsured or underinsured. The program works with cities, states, and local community-based organizations to provide HIV care and treatment services to more than half a million people each year.
The grant program is named for Ryan White, an Indiana teenager and hemophiliac who contracted AIDS from infected blood. He died in 1990.
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