[Federal Register Volume 64, Number 15 (Monday, January 25, 1999)]
[Notices]
[Pages 3704-3705]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 99-1524]
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DEPARTMENT OF HEALTH AND HUMAN SERVICES
Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration
Supplemental Grant Award to the Research Triangle Institute in
North Carolina
AGENCY: Center for Mental Health Services (CMHS), Substance Abuse and
Mental Health Services Administration (SAMHSA), DHHS.
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ACTION: Planned supplemental grant award to the Cooperative Agreement
for an HIV/AIDS High-Risk Behavior Prevention/Intervention Model for
Young Adults/Adolescents and Women Coordinating Center.
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SUMMARY: This notice is to provide information to the public concerning
a planned supplemental award by CMHS/SAMHSA to an existing grant to the
Research Triangle Institute (RTI). This award will provide additional
support for the HIV/AIDS High-Risk Coordinating Center in order to
assist seven existing study sites to increase the number of eligible
individuals who can participate in the intervention studies under way
at each site, and to provide each study site with the capacity to
include the use of biological markers as an outcome measure in the
study protocol as part of the model protocol, and to centrally
coordinate data collection and analysis of these measures. Upon receipt
of a satisfactory application that is recommended for approval by an
Initial Review Group and the CMHS National Advisory Council, up to
$750,000 in Federal funds may be awarded to this organization each year
over the remaining project period of the existing HIV/AIDS High Risk
Coordinating Center grant which is scheduled to end on August 31, 2001.
This is not a formal request for applications. Grant funds may only
be provided to the organization named above.
Authority/Justification: This grant will be made under the
authority of Section 520A of the Public Health Service Act, as amended
(42 U.S.C. 290bb-32).
The Catalog of Federal Domestic Assistance (CFDA) number for this
program is 93.125. The purpose of the HIV/AIDS High-Risk Program is to
develop and test, through a series of pilot studies, a single model for
a brief/short-term prevention/intervention protocol, based on what is
currently known, to encourage and enable adolescents/women who engage
in high-risk behaviors associated with HIV/AIDS transmission to change
these behaviors. In FY 1997, the Research Triangle Institute (RTI)
competed successfully to be the coordinating center to assist the study
sites in developing/implementing a single model for a brief/short-term
prevention/intervention protocol, using state-of-the-art methodology.
However, CMHS subsequently determined that the development/
implementation of a state-of-the-art intervention model will require
additional participants at the individual sites and the use of
biological markers as outcome measures. The purpose of this
supplemental award is to fund the additional coordination, personnel,
data collection and data management for the increased sample and the
inclusion of biological markers as an outcome measure. RTI will build
upon the expertise gained by the coordinating center during the first
two years of the study, to develop and implement these additionally
aspects of the program. The supplemental work is inextricably linked to
the current activities that RTI is already performing for the AIDS
High-Risk Program.
For the above reasons, only an application from the Research
Triangle Institute will be considered for this program.
FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: Barbara J. Silver, Ph.D., Director of
HIV/AIDS Prevention/Education Program, Office of the Associate Director
for Medical Affairs, CMHS, SAMHSA, 5600 Fishers Lane, Room 15-81,
Rockville, MD 20857; (301) 443-7817.
Dated: January 18, 1999.
Richard Kopanda,
Executive Officer, SAMHSA.
[FR Doc. 99-1524 Filed 1-22-99; 8:45 am]
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