CDC awards $215 million as part of Cancer Moonshot initiative revival -Breaking
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© Reuters. FILE PHOTO: Secretary of U.S. Health and Human Services, Xavier Becerra (U.S. Health and Human Services) makes remarks at a meeting with Kamala Harris, the U.S. vice president. The purpose of the visit was to highlight the infrastructure plans for the Northeast Bronx YMCA located in the Bronx borough.(Reuters) – The U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), announced that it would award $215 million for its first year funding in order to revive the Obama Administration’s Cancer Moonshot initiative, which aimed at controlling and preventing the disease.
The funding will be given to 86 recipients https://www.cdc.gov/cancer/dcpc/about/foa-dp22-2202, including various U.S. states as well as indigenous tribes such as Cherokee Nation, Kaw Nation of Oklahoma and Navajo Nation, among others.
It is part of an overall five-year investment plan worth $1.1 billion into three national programs to prevent and control cancer, the CDC said https://www.cdc.gov/media/releases/2022/p0608-cancer-award.html on Wednesday.
“This funding represents a crucial investment in support President Biden’s Cancer Moonshot Initiative and our efforts help ensure that every American equitably benefits the tools we possess to diagnose and detect cancer,” Health and Human Services Secretary Xavier Becerra stated in the CDC statement.
In February, Joe Biden (the US President) announced that he plans to lower the death rate due to cancer by at minimum 50% in the next 25-years by expediting research and expanding access under his “Cancer Moonshot” initiative.
Biden was the vice president at the time of the launch of this initiative in 2016.
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