[Federal Register Volume 66, Number 45 (Wednesday, March 7, 2001)]
[Notices]
[Page 13745]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 01-5504]


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DEPARTMENT OF HEALTH AND HUMAN SERVICES

Centers for Disease Control and Prevention


The National Center for HIV, STD and TB Prevention of the Centers 
for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) Announces the Following 
External Consultant Meeting

    Name: External Consultant Meeting on Nonoccupational Antiretroviral 
Postexposure Prophylaxis (nPEP).
    Times and Dates: 8 a.m.-5 p.m., May 10, 2001. 8:30 a.m.-3:15 p.m., 
May 11, 2001.
    Place: Atlanta Hilton and Towers-Downtown, 255 Courtland Street, 
NE, Atlanta, GA 30303.
    Status: Open to the public, limited only by the space available.
    Purpose: Attendees at this meeting will discuss and make 
recommendations as individuals to the Division of HIV/AIDS Prevention-
Surveillance and Epidemiology on matters related to the potential use 
of antiretroviral medications and other interventions following sexual, 
injection drug use, and other non-occupational exposures to human 
immunodeficiency virus with a resulting risk of infection.
    Matters To Be Discussed: Agenda items will include: a review of 
data on the potential efficacy of antiretroviral prophylaxis in 
occupational, perinatal, and non-human primate retroviral exposures; 
information on the extent of, and situations leading to requests for, 
and provision of, nPEP in the United States; whether and how additional 
data to determine nPEP efficacy in humans can be collected; and whether 
and how the CDC and the Public Health Service should amend its 1998 
statement on nPEP considerations.
    Contact Person for More Information: Dr. Dawn K. Smith, Medical 
Epidemiologist, NCHSTP, CDC, 1600 Clifton Road, NE, M/S E-45, Atlanta, 
Georgia 30333, telephone 404-639-6165. The Director, Management 
Analysis and Services Office, has been delegated the authority to sign 
Federal Register notices pertaining to announcements of meetings and 
other committee management activities, for both the Centers for Disease 
Control and Prevention and the Agency for Toxic Substances and Disease 
Registry.

    Dated: March 1, 2001.
Carolyn J. Russell,
Director, Management Analysis and Services Office, Centers for Disease 
Control and Prevention.
[FR Doc. 01-5504 Filed 3-6-01; 8:45 am]
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