[Federal Register: January 25, 1999 (Volume 64, Number 15)]
[Notices]               
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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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