What is HHS Doing?
The U.S. Department Health and Human Services (HHS) has launched programs that address health disparities directly through programs that engage racial and ethnic minority communities in the fight against specific diseases and conditions that have a major impact in their community. HHS has worked to ensure that programs that are not minority-specific, but which serve large numbers of Americans, are systematically looking for opportunities to prevent, screen, diagnose, refer for follow-up care, and treat health conditions that have a disproportionate and adverse impact on minority populations. Here are two examples of HHS programs: Diabetes Detection Initiative: Finding the Undiagnosed (DDI): Launched in 2003, DDI is a community-based initiative designed to increase blood testing for individuals who are at high-risk for diabetes and to increase diagnosis for those with unrecognized diabetes. About 5.2 million of the total 18.2 million persons with diabetes in the United States have undia
