This third grant round (GEN III) will award six to eight grants to community-based organizations to create or adapt evidence-based HIV/AIDS prevention interventions that reduce the spread of HIV among at-risk women and girls. GEN III funds will be targeted to geographic regions with high HIV/AIDS incidence and prevalence rates in women based on state or local epidemiology as well

The first full year of the U.S. recession likely dragged down household incomes and pushed more Americans into poverty in 2008. The Census Bureau’s annual report on incomes, poverty and health insurance forecasts that the unemployment rate will rise to 10 percent, throwing more people into poverty even as the economy emerges from its worst slump since the Great Depression.