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Health Resources and Services Administration
The Health Resources and Services Administration is the part of the Department of Health and Human Services that helps people who are underserved or geographically isolated get health care. It supports community health centers, rural health programs, care for people with HIV and AIDS, maternal and child health, and the national organ transplant system.
People usually bring questions about where to find low-cost care and how community health centers work. Others ask how organ donation and transplant are organized, how loan repayment programs help health workers, and how vaccine injury claims are handled.
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