United Way of Metropolitan Atlanta works to support and help build a community that is healthy and has the resources to access preventive, primary care services.
Goal 1- People have access to primary care services
United Way wants to see all residents of the metro region have access to primary care services, including medical care, mental health services and dental care. In the metro region alone, there are over 650,000 people that do not have health insurance, including over 143,000 children. Beyond these numbers, residents of the metro region are facing barriers to accessing primary care services on a daily basis because of language differences, geography, lack of transportation and limited income to pay for health services.
Some startling statistics...
- Georgia ranks 41st out of the 50 states in the percent of residents without health insurance (United Health)
- With an estimated 650,000 uninsured in the metro region, about $715 million is spent on healthcare obtained by the uninsured (Georgia Health Policy Center)
- Metropolitan Atlanta is home to nearly 40 percent of all Georgians and more than 30 percent of the state’s uninsured (Georgia Health Policy Center)
Check out our work in this area.
Goal 2 - Babies are born healthy
AIDS Response Center
The Atlanta AIDS Partnership Fund (AAPF) is a collaborative funding partnership between the Community Foundation for Greater Atlanta, United Way of Metropolitan Atlanta, the National AIDS Fund, Bristol-Myers Squibb, the Elton John AIDS Foundation, the Design Industries Foundation Fighting AIDS, Jeffrey Fashion Cares and StyleAtlanta.
The mission of AAPF is to further HIV/AIDS advocacy, provide prevention interventions and client services in metropolitan Atlanta through funding and leadership. The AAPF has awarded grants totaling more that $10 million to help lessen the impact of this epidemic in our community and to improve the lives of those living with HIV/AIDS.
AIDS Fund Leadership