On Wednesday, the U.S. Department of Health And Human Services awarded a $14 million, five-year grant to the University of South Florida's Center for HIV Education and Research to expand a program that trains health workers in Florida, Puerto Rico and the Virgin Islands in treating HIV patients. The grant ‹ the largest in the center's 17-year history ‹ will also train health professionals in HIV/AIDS prevention. Since 2002, the program has trained more than 100,000 health care providers. Michael Knox, the center's founder and director, said workers have difficulty keeping pace with rapidly changing HIV treatment procedures. Knox said federal guidelines have changed 49 times in the past eight years. The USF program is the only federally funded AIDS Education and Training Center in Florida, he said.

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