[Federal Register Volume 82, Number 186 (Wednesday, September 27, 2017)]
[Notices]
[Page 45032]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 2017-20687]
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DEPARTMENT OF HEALTH AND HUMAN SERVICES
Health Resources and Services Administration
Ryan White HIV/AIDS Program, Part F AIDS Education and Training
Centers
AGENCY: Health Resources and Services Administration, HHS.
ACTION: Notice of non-competitive, HRSA-initiated, Secretary's Minority
AIDS Initiative Fund (SMAIF) supplemental funding award: Fiscal Year
(FY) 2017 Ryan White HIV/AIDS Program (RWHAP) AIDS Education and
Training Centers (AETC) to the National Clinician Consultation Center
(NCCC) at the University of California, San Francisco.
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SUMMARY: This non-competitive supplemental funding award will provide a
phone consultation line staffed by clinicians dedicated to providing
technical support and real-time clinical consultation to health
professionals who treat people living with HIV (PLWH) who are
coinfected with the hepatitis C virus (HCV).
FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: Ms. Sherrillyn Crooks, Chief, HIV
Education Branch, HIV/AIDS Bureau, Health Resources and Services
Administration, 5600 Fishers Lane, 09N09, Rockville, MD 20857, Phone:
(301) 443-7662, Email: [email protected].
SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION:
Intended Recipient of the Award: The University of California, San
Francisco.
Amount of Non-Competitive Award: $200,000.
Period of Funding: July 1, 2017, through June 30, 2018.
CFDA Number: 93.145.
Authority: The Consolidated Appropriations Act, 2017 (Pub. L. 115-
31), Division H, Title II.
Justification
HRSA's SMAIF HIV/HCV initiatives seek to improve the prevention,
screening, care, treatment, and cure of HCV in areas affected by HIV/
HCV coinfection, particularly in disproportionately affected low-
income, uninsured and underserved racial and ethnic minority
populations in the United States. Despite the fact that HIV treatment
outcomes continue to improve among PLWH, HIV/HCV coinfection remains a
major concern with approximately one quarter of PLWH also coinfected
with HCV.
The University of California, San Francisco's NCCC is funded under
the RWHAP AETC Program, which comprises a network of three national
centers and eight regional centers (with more than 130 local affiliated
sites) that conduct targeted, multidisciplinary education, training,
and technical assistance to health care providers who treat PLWH. The
NCCC provides nationwide expert technical support, and clinical
consultation services to health professionals who treat PLWH.
Supplemental funding will enable the NCCC to leverage its existing
infrastructure to add an HIV/HCV phone consultation line to deliver
immediate clinical consultation and education services to RWHAP
clinical providers funded through the SMAIF HIV/HCV initiatives and to
clinical providers nationwide. Clinical providers will receive guidance
based on up-to-date clinical HCV guidelines. Subject to the
availability of funds and the recipient's satisfactory performance, up
to $200,000 will also be awarded in FY18 (budget period July 1, 2018
through June 30, 2019) and FY19 (budget period July 1, 2019 through
June 30, 2020).
Denial of this request will prevent RWHAP clinical providers from
achieving the goals of the SMAIF HIV/HCV initiative and from gaining
critical and immediate access to a national network of HIV/HCV
resources, including clinical experts who would provide education and
technical assistance that meets the unique needs of this initiative.
Dated: September 14, 2017.
George Sigounas,
Administrator.
[FR Doc. 2017-20687 Filed 9-26-17; 8:45 am]
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