Dr. Marshall D'Souza of the McGregor Clinic has been named Lee Memorial Health System's Physician of the Month for August.

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The McGregor Clinic was awarded a grant of more than $1.4 million by the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services. The grant, awarded through the Ryan White HIV/AIDS Program, will provide the Fort Myers clinic with $292,500 in funds each year for the next five years. Awarded under Part C of the program, the funds go to community-based organizations such as health care centers and nonprofit providers of primary health care for people living with HIV. Part C grants also may be used to hire case managers to help patients access care and remain in treatment.

"This grant gives us the opportunity to provide critically needed care for people with HIV and AIDS in or community," says Sharon Murphy, Executive Director of the McGregor Clinic. "This will allow us to increase our staff, increase the number of hours our medical practitioners can see patients and increase our support services, such as case management."

As a result, the time a patient waits between diagnosis and treatment will be greatly reduced.

This is the first time the McGregor Clinic has been awarded the grant. Murphy believes the increase in their patient caseload played a significant part in receiving it. "Over the past for years we have seen a 20% increase every year in the number of patients we treat. In 2005, we cared for 360 patients. We now have 638 patients coming to us from all over Southwest Florida."

The Ryan White HIV/AIDS Program was named after the Indiana teenager who was infected with the disease in 1984 and expelled from school due to fear and a lack of understanding about the disease. He became a national spokesperson for HIV research and education before his death in 1990 at age 18.

Split into parts, the Ryan White HIV/AIDS Program is set up to serve specific needs and to allow grants to be awarded with particular focus in mind.
- Part A focuses on metropolitan areas most severely hit by HIV/AIDS cases.
- Part B concentrates on states and geographic areas in need of assistance. Locally the Health Planning Council of Southwest Florida oversees the funds for Area 8. This includes Lee, Collier, Charlotte, DeSoto, Hendry, Glades and Sarasota counties.
- Part C is dedicated to early intervention services for those being treated for AIDS on an outpatient basis.

(see articles in the Fort Myers News Press, Cape Coral Daily Breeze, Naples News, USAToday, thebody.com, Kaiser Family Foundation, Medical News Today, Daylife, and Stop HIV AIDS)

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