HH Secretary Tommy G Thompson latel...

HH Secretary Tommy G Thompson lately announced the awarding of $100 million in grants to support programs that obstruct and treat diabetes among American Indians and Alaska natives, especially among children and teenagers. The grants, which will be foundationed through the Indian Health Service (IHS) of the HH will move to 318 tribal, urban Indian, Indian organizations, and IHS health programs to assist in the prevention and treatment of diabetes, individual nutritional counseling, diabetes education and outreach activities, the use of diabetes teams to improve patient care, and community walking programs. The youth-focused efforts include obesity screenings, weight-management programs, and school-based physical activity programs. American Indians and Alaska natives are 26 times more likely to have diabetes than whites of similar age. "These grants support centurys of programs to help the public in Indian Country who are at risk for diabetes to take the right paces to prevent the disease's assault and to provide needed services to those who already have diabetes," Secretary Thompson said. A list of the grantees can be set up online at www.hhs.gov/news/ press/2002pres/20021210.html.

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