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[Federal Register Volume 69, Number 224 (Monday, November 22, 2004)]
[Notices]
[Pages 67931-67932]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 04-25750]

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DEPARTMENT OF HEALTH AND HUMAN SERVICES

Health Resources and Services Administration

Cooperative Agreement for the International AIDS Education and 
Training Center; CFDA 93.145

AGENCY: Health Resources and Services Administration, HHS.

ACTION: Notice of supplemental award.

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    Intended Recipient of the Award: University of Washington, Seattle, 
Washington.
    Purpose of the Award: This notice announces the program expansion 
supplement for the cooperative agreement for the International AIDS 
Education and Training Center at the University of Washington, Seattle, 
Washington, to expand and augment capacity building under the 
President's Emergency Plan for AIDS Relief (the President's Emergency 
Plan). This is the third budget period for this Cooperative Agreement. 
The purpose of this funding is to support the President's Emergency 
Plan by strengthening human and organizational capacity through 
training, technical assistance, infrastructure building, and curriculum 
development in the 15 focus countries including 12 in Africa, two in 
the Caribbean and Vietnam (Botswana, C[ocirc]te d'Ivoire, Ethiopia, 
Guyana, Haiti, Kenya, Mozambique, Namibia, Nigeria, Rwanda, South 
Africa, Tanzania, Uganda and Zambia). Further training and technical 
assistance is also being augmented through the President's Emergency 
Plan in other countries for which bilateral agreements for similar 
strategies have been established. The President's Emergency Plan is 
intended to complement other bilateral and international support 
efforts, including support through the Global Fund to Fight AIDS, 
Tuberculosis, and Malaria.
    Amount of the Award: $8,877,718.
    Project Period: Original Project Period 04/01/02-9/30/05, New 
Project Period: 04/01/02-2/28/06.
    The current budget period is being extended to February 28, 2005 
(in line with the intent of the five year strategy of the President's 
Emergency Plan). This would also extend the project period for the 
cooperative agreement from September 30, 2005, to February 28, 2006.
    Justification for the Exception to Competition: The International 
AIDS Education and Training Center is the only Health Resources and 
Services Administration (HRSA), HIV/AIDS Bureau grantee providing 
valuable capacity building in the area of care and treatment to the 
focus and bilateral countries through training and other technical 
assistance. The original intent of this cooperative agreement was to 
fulfill the gap in training for quality, comprehensive HIV/AIDS care 
and treatment left by other U.S. Government partners. The President's 
Emergency Plan is providing the resources to provide the services that 
are needed in countries hardest hit by the AIDS epidemic. Without this 
program expansion supplement, HRSA's HIV/AIDS Bureau will be unable to 
provide this enhanced level of resources and expertise to the targeted 
countries.

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: Additional information on the 
International AIDS Education and Training Center may be obtained from 
Thurma Goldman, MD, MPH, HIV/AIDS Bureau, HRSA, 5600 Fishers Lane, 
Parklawn Building, Room 7-05, Rockville, Maryland 20857; telephone 
number (301) 443-1993; fax (301) 443-9645; or e-mail [email protected].

    Dated: November 10, 2004.
Elizabeth M. Duke,
Administrator.
[FR Doc. 04-25750 Filed 11-19-04; 8:45 am]
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