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Dept/ Agency: Health and Community Wellness
Action: (X) Ratifying (X) Authorizing ( ) Amending
Type of Service: Acceptance of Grant Funds
Purpose: To provide Ryan White HIV Health and Support Services for ending the HIV epidemic in the City of Newark and the Newark Eligible Metropolitan Area (NEMA).
Entity Name: United States Department of Health and Human Services, Health Resources and Services Administration (HRSA)
Entity Address: 5600 Fishers Lane, Rockville, Maryland 20857
Grant Amount: $343,068.00
Total Project Cost: $0.00
City Contribution: $0.00
Other Funding Source/Amount: $0.00
Grant Period: March 1, 2023 through February 29, 2024
Contract Basis: ( ) Bid ( ) State Vendor ( ) Prof. Ser. ( ) EUS
( ) Fair & Open ( ) No Reportable Contributions ( ) RFP ( ) RFQ
( ) Private Sale (X) Grant ( ) Sub-recipient ( ) n/a
Additional Information:
Resolution 7R5-a adopted on July 22, 2020, authorized the City's grant application requesting grant funds in the amount of $4,000,000.00.
Resolution 7R5-a(S) adopted on June 22, 2021, amended the City's grant application requesting grant funds in the corrected amount of $21,814,001.00, budgeted over a five (5) year period, from FY 2020 through FY 2024.
This Resolution represents a partial award for FY2023, year four (4).
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WHEREAS, in February 2019, the United States Department of Health and Human Services (HHS), Health Resources and Services Administration (HRSA), announced a new initiative, "Ending the HIV Epidemic: A Plan for America-Ryan White HIV/AIDS Program Parts A and B". This ten (10) year initiative beginning in 2020 seeks to achieve the important goal of reducing new HIV infections in the United States to less than 3,000 per year by 2030; and
WHEREAS, the first phase of the initiative will focus on forty-eight (48) counties, Washington, D.C., San Juan, Puerto Rico, and seven (7) states that have a substantial rural HIV ...
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