Agency Information Collection Activities: Submission for OMB Review; Comment Request

DEPARTMENT OF HEALTH AND HUMAN SERVICES

Health Resources and Services Administration

Agency Information Collection Activities: Submission for OMB

Review; Comment Request

Periodically, the Health Resources and Services Administration

(HRSA) publishes abstracts of information collection requests under

review by the Office of Management and Budget, in compliance with the

Paperwork Reduction Act of 1995 (44 U.S.C. Chapter 35). To request a

copy of the clearance requests submitted to OMB for review, call the

HRSA Reports Clearance Office on (301) 443-1129.

The following request has been submitted to the Office of

Management and Budget for review under the Paperwork Reduction Act of

1995:

Assessment of HIV Counseling and Testing (C&T) Services for Women

of Childbearing Age in Bureau of Primary Health Care (BPHC) Programs--

New--The Health Resources and Services Administration (HRSA),

Bureau of Primary Health Care (BPHC) is planning to conduct a survey-

based study of its primary care programs to examine various

implementation issues related to the design and delivery of HIV

counseling and testing (HIV C&T) services to women of childbearing age.

The survey population will be a probability sample of the BPHC-funded

grantees, designed to permit analysis by type of BPHC funding received.

The mail survey instrument will be designed to explore various HIV

C&T implementation issues and relevant research questions, including:

(a) Extent to which HIV C&T services are available (provided directly

by programs or through referrals), (b) attributes of the BPHC programs

that offer HIV C&T services to women of childbearing age; (c)

characteristics of HIV C&T services, provided by BPHC programs; (d)

programmatic and population-specific barriers to delivery of HIV C&T

services; (e) lessons and best practices for replication; (f)

recommendations for technical assistance to facilitate timely,

effective implementation. The resulting analysis and report will

present program-based lessons and recommendations for assisting and

improving capacity of various BPHC programs to design and implement HIV

C&T services for women of childbearing age, and thus assist in

promoting community-based HIV C&T services for women, especially

pregnant women. Response burden is as follows:

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Number of Responses/ Hours per Total burden

Type of respondent respondents respondent response hours

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Grantees providing HIV C&T Services..................... 141 2 2 282

Grantees not providing HIV C&T Services................. 69 1 1 69

Total............................................... 210 ............ ............ 351

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Written comments and recommendations concerning the proposed

information collection should be sent within 30 days of this notice to:

Virginia Huth, Human Resources and Housing Branch, Office of Management

and Budget, New Executive Office Building, Room 10235, Washington, D.C.

20503.

Dated: June 12, 1997.

James J. Corrigan,

Acting Associate Administrator for Management and Program Support.

[FR Doc. 97-16237 Filed 6-19-97; 8:45 am]

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