Funding Opportunity: Stroke Belt Elimination Initiative

Funding Opportunity: Stroke Belt Elimination Initiative

A Request for Applications (RFA) to support hypertension prevention, detection, and control efforts in southeastern "Stroke Belt" States, is expected to be announced soon by the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services' Office of Minority Health (OMH).

Applications will be accepted from communities in the following seven States for Fiscal Year (FY) 2004:

• Alabama
• Arkansas
• Georgia
• Mississippi
• North Carolina
• South Carolina
• Tennessee

Successful applicants will adopt, own, and "localize" a program to reduce the rates of stroke and its priority risk factor, hypertension in their community. They will collaborate with local, regional, and national entities and programs through a local Stroke Belt Community Action Team and a Community Stroke Belt Coordinator.

More information will be provided through an NHLBI Health Information Network e-Bulletin when the RFA and Initiative are formally announced.