[Federal Register Volume 70, Number 105 (Thursday, June 2, 2005)]
[Notices]
[Pages 32337-32338]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 05-10980]


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DEPARTMENT OF HEALTH AND HUMAN SERVICES

Office of the Secretary

[Document Identifier: OS-0990-New]


Agency Information Collection Activities: Proposed Collection; 
Comment Request

AGENCY: Office of the Secretary, Office of Public Health and Science, 
Office on Women's Health.
    In compliance with the requirement of section 3506(c)(2)(A) of the 
Paperwork Reduction Act of 1995, the Office of the Secretary (OS), 
Department of Health and Human Services, is publishing the following 
summary of proposed collections for public comment.
    Type of Information Collection Request: New collection, regular.
    Title of Information Collection: Evaluation of HIV Prevention 
Program in Women.
    Form/OMB No.: OS-0990-New.
    This notice replaces a previous notice for the same information 
collection published on March 13, 2005. We are republishing this notice 
in order to provide more accurate information about the numbers of 
clients serviced by funded programs. The two primary differences 
between this notice and the previously published notice are the 
increase in burden from 147.5 hours to 1,635 hours and the number of 
respondents from 218 to 552. This increase is caused by data collection 
forms associated with only one type of respondent, program staff. 
Respondents are required to complete these forms for each person 
utilizing their service. The enhanced information regarding the number 
of clients served increased the burden. The new burden more accurately 
reflects the number of responses per respondent required to conduct the 
pre-post methodology of this evaluation of knowledge and risk 
behaviors.
    Use: The Office on Women's Health (OWH) has instituted an HIV 
Prevention Program in Women. As part of their evaluation of the HIV 
Prevention Program for Women, the OWH is seeking a new clearance to 
conduct data collection activities associated with the evaluation of 
funded programs. The evaluation is designed to determine best practices 
and clearly define the gender-centered approach to HIV/AIDS prevention. 
The HIV/AIDS programs to be evaluated are the Model Mentorship, 
Incarcerated/Newly Released Women and HIV prevention in the rural 
south. The program consists of individual community-based organizations 
from across the country. The evaluation results will assess how 
successful the OWH program is at meeting its overarching goals: to 
increase HIV prevention knowledge and reduce the risk of contracting 
HIV among young minority women.
    Awarded contractors participating in the HIV Prevention Program in 
Women and stakeholders in the HIV Prevention service area will provide 
data that are necessary to conduct the evaluation. Stakeholders will 
provide data on (1) the number of women served with HIV/AIDS; (2) the 
network of services (and programs) available in those communities, 
including programs offered by their particular center or agency; (3) 
the challenges and barriers to service implementation faced by 
providers; (4) the unique and general challenges and barriers to 
service faced by women with HIV/AIDS; (5) the general impression of 
perceived need for services (as opposed to identified need); and (6) 
the sources of funding for their HIV/AIDS prevention services in 
general and those for women in particular. Awarded contractors will 
provide data on the number of women served, client demographics, type 
and number of services provided, client outcomes, client utilization, 
and service capacity. Clients of awarded contractors will also 
participate in a client utilization survey. The data provided will be 
utilized to evaluate the overall performance of the HIV Prevention 
Program in Women. This information will also be used to develop a 
comprehensive framework from which to analyze the relationship between 
surveillance data and HIV prevention service gap and to carry out a 
comparative analysis to determine best practices for HIV prevention 
among women.
    Frequency: Reporting, quarterly.
    Affected Public: Individuals or households, business or other for-
profit, not-for-profit institutions.
    Annual Number of Respondents: 552.
    Total Annual Responses: 5,918.
    Average Burden Per Response: 1 hour.
    Total Annual Hours: 1,635.

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SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION:
    This is a new data collection.

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                                                                                                      Total cost
     Respondent type             Activity         Number of    Responses/   Time (hr)/     Total          to
                                                 respondents   respondent    response      burden     respondent
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Program staff............  HIV/AIDS Knowledge              6          240         0.25          360
                            Form (pre and post).
                           HIV/AIDS Risk                   6          240         0.33          475
                            Behavior Form.
                           Encounter Form......           14          120         0.25          420
                           Client Background               6          120         0.17          122
                            Form.
                           Process Evaluation             18            2         1.00           36
                            Form-Staff.
                           ....................  ...........  ...........  ...........  ...........        $0.00
Clients of Funded          Client Utilization            210            1         0.33           70
 programs.                  Form (RS/INR).
                           Recruiting Script             300            1         0.17           51
                            for Utilization
                            survey.
                           ....................  ...........  ...........  ...........  ...........        $0.00
Directors, Funded          Protege Utilization             8            1         0.50            4
 programs.                  Form.
                           Organizational                 12            2         1.50           36
                            Assessment
                            Questionnaire (pre
                            and post).
                           Process Evaluation             18            2         1.00           36
                            Form-Director.
Stakeholders.............  Stakeholder Survey..           24            1            1           24    $1,200.00
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    Total................                                552  ...........  ...........        1,635    $1,200.00
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    To obtain copies of the supporting statement and any related forms 
for the proposed paperwork collections referenced above, access the HHS 
Web site address at http://www.hhs.gov/oirm/infocollect/pending/ or e-
mail your request, including your address, phone number, OMB number, 
and OS document identifier, to [email protected], or call the Reports 
Clearance Office on (202) 690-6162. Written comments and 
recommendations for the proposed information collections must be mailed 
within 30 days of this notice directly to the Desk Officer at the 
address below: OMB Desk Officer: John Kraemer, OMB Human Resources and 
Housing Branch, Attention: (OMB 0990-NEW), New Executive 
Office Building, Room 10235, Washington DC 20503.

    Dated: May 20, 2005.
Robert E. Polson,
Office of the Secretary, Paperwork Reduction Act Reports Clearance 
Officer.
[FR Doc. 05-10980 Filed 6-1-05; 8:45 am]
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