HRSA, an agency of the United States Department of Health and Human Services, is charged with oversight of the Office of Special Programs, which in turn provides oversight to the Division of Transplantation. The mission of HRSA is to improve the nation’s health by assuring equal access to comprehensive, culturally competent, quality health care for all. The goal is to assure total access health care and to eliminate health disparities for all Americans. HRSA supports a nationwide network of 643 community and migrant health centers and 144 primary care programs for the homeless and residents of public housing, serving 8.1 million Americans each year. HRSA also works to build the health care workforce and maintains the National Health Service Corps, oversees the nation’s organ transplantation system, helps provide health resources for medically under-served populations, works to decrease infant mortality and improve child health, and provides services to people with AIDS through the Ryan White CARE Act programs. In the fiscal year beginning October 1, 2000, Congress appropriated $6.23 billion to HRSA, including $1.3 billion to provide primary health care in underserved areas, $1.8 billion to care for underserved people with HIV/AIDS, $964 million for services that improve maternal and child health, and $352 million to health professions training and quality assurance.