FW: CDC-funded demonstration project to implement HIV testing among migrant workers and others

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The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC ) is sponsoring a demonstration project to implement HIV rapid testing programs in Historically Black Colleges and Universities and alternative venues, including alternative health clinics and primary health clinics, and in specific populations, including transgendered populations, American Indian populations, and migrant farmworker populations.

The announcement was published today, Wednesday, 23 June 2004, in the Federal Register, Vol. 69, No. 120, pp. 35035-3509:

Demonstration Projects for Implementation of Rapid HIV Testing in Historically Black Colleges and Universities and Alternative Venues and PopulationsAnnouncement Type: New.Funding Opportunity Number: 04158.Catalog of Federal Domestic Assistance Number: 93.943.DATES: Application Deadline: July 23, 2004.

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Grants and cooperative agreements; availability, etc.:

Human immunodeficiency virus (HIV)—

Rapid HIV testing demonstration projects in historically black colleges and alternative venues and populations,

35035–35039 [04–14174]

See part 3 of the announcement for details on HIV testing among migrant farmworkers.

Please forward this announcement to other organizations that may be interested.

Thanks,

M. Painter PhD, Behavioral Scientist (Sociologist)

Prevention Research Branch, MS E-37

Division of HIV/AIDS Prevention

National Center for HIV, STD and TB Prevention

Centers for Disease Control and Prevention

1600 Clifton Road, NE

Atlanta, Georgia 30333 USA

Tel. 1-404-639-6113

Fax 1-404-639-8640/1950

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