[Federal Register Volume 64, Number 180 (Friday, September 17, 1999)]
[Notices]
[Page 50514]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 99-24211]
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DEPARTMENT OF HEALTH AND HUMAN SERVICES
Office of Public Health and Science; Grant Award to Cicatelli
Associates, Inc.
AGENCY: Office of Population Affairs, OPHS, HHS.
ACTION: Notice.
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SUMMARY: This notice is to inform the public that the Office of Family
Planning (OFP) of the Office of Population Affairs (OPA) is making
available an award of approximately $500,000 in FY 1999 to Cicatelli
Associates, Inc., a Title X general training and technical assistance
grantee, under Section 1003 of Title X of the Public Health Service
Act. These funds are from the Office of the Secretary's Public Health
and Social Services Emergency Fund and were provided in the FY 1999
Emergency Supplemental Appropriation Pub. L. 105-277) by the
Congressional Black Caucus for the Secretary to address the HIV/AIDS
crisis in racial and ethnic minority communities through specifically
targeted programs that respond to changing demographics of the disease.
Cicatelli Associates, Inc. (CAI) has requested these funds to
support a one-year training and technical assistance project that will
increase the capacity of Title X providers and other small community-
based organizations to provide prevention and early intervention
services for poor, minority communities disproportionately impacted by
HIV/AIDS, sexually transmitted diseases, and unwanted pregnancies. CAI
is proposing to develop training and technical assistance activities
that focus on improving the coordination, comprehensiveness and quality
of HIV/AIDS service provision, by bringing together community-based
organizations, primarily those providing support services to
communities of color, including Title X providers, into federal
regional planning and networking activities.
The training and technical assistance activities proposed by CAI
will include facilitating the identification of HIV/AIDS community
resources across the country, and compiling regional resource handbooks
on HIV/AIDS services, focusing on community-based organizations
providing support and ancillary services to individuals and families
affected and infected by HIV/AIDS. Also, CAI is proposing to support
training and technical assistance activities for capacity building
within small agencies and organizations that serve primarily racial and
ethnic minorities and are in communities with high HIV incidence.
The unsolicited proposal from CAI was reviewed and approved by a
federal interagency review panel. The following language regarding the
use of these funds is to be placed on the award: ``These funds are to
be used only for high priority prevention and treatment needs in areas
heavily impacted by HIV/AIDS, and to complement existing and previously
planned targeted HIV/AIDS activities regarding communities of color.''
FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: Susan Moskosky, Acting Deputy
Director, Office of Family Planning, OPA, 4350 East-West Highway, Suite
200, Bethesda, MD 20814. (301) 594-4008.
Dated: September 10, 1999.
Denese O. Shervington,
Deputy Assistant Secretary for Population Affairs.
[FR Doc. 99-24211 Filed 9-16-99; 8:45 am]
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