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A -- ALTERNATIVE STATISTICAL MODELS FOR ALCOHOL USE AND HIV HIGH-RISK BEHAVIORS Sol AA 96-04, Due 080996, POC Edward J. Kostolansky, Contract Specialist, 301/443-1191, Roberta S. Wilhelm, Contracting Officer, 301/443-1191. The National Institute on Alcohol Abuse and Alcoholism intends to negotiate a one-year contract with the Boston University School of Public Health for a project entitled Alternative Statistic Models for Alcohol Use and HIV High-Risk Behaviors. The proposed contract will perform detailed analyses on previously collected data, specifically the Boston Young Men's Study. This will assist NIAAA in: (1) providing appropriate analytic procedures for alcohol use and co-occurring risk behaviors; (2) revising the alcohol-related instruments that are currently being used within the HIVNET Vaccine Preparedness Study; and 93) serving as a basis for evaluating future alcohol-related preventive interventions that are being contemplated for the HIVNET Vaccine Preparedness Study. Authority: 41 U.S.C. 25(c)(1), as set forth in FAR 6.302-1. This is the only available data set that contains global, situational, and event measures of drinking and unsafe sex among your gay men. The unique feature of overlapping data sets with the HIVNET Vaccine Preparedness Study sample make this data set the only one in which complete alcohol information has been collected which bears on possible modifications to the HIVNET Vaccine Preparedness Study. Inquiries must be made in writing, telephone inquires are unacceptable. See Numbered Note 22 and 26 in the Commerce Business Daily. Proposals will be due on or about August 9, 1996. (183)

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