SPNS/Fax: An Electronic Report from HRSA/HAB's SPNS Cooperative Agreements:
Volume 1, Issue 14 (October 18, 1996)

Information dissemination from 27 Innovative Models of HIV Care projects funded as Special Projects of National Significance by the HIV/AIDS Bureau (HAB) of the Health Resources and Services Administration (HRSA).

Introduction

Welcome to SPNS/Fax: An Electronic Report from HRSA/HAB's SPNS Cooperative Agreements. In each issue of SPNS/Fax, we will highlight findings from the HRSA Special Projects of National Significance Program Cooperative Agreements. The projects have been funded to develop innovative models of HIV/AIDS care. SPNS/Fax reports are distributed every two weeks by fax machine to all subscribers. All issues of SPNS/Fax are also available at this Web site. Due to slight differences in the media, issues distributed by fax machine may appear slightly different from those posted on this Web site, but the content is identical.

Electronic Distribution Methods Established for Information on HRSA SPNS Program Models of HIV/AIDS Care: World Wide Web (Internet) and Fax-on-Demand Systems

Web (Internet) page at www.TheMeasurementGroup.com/edc.htm: The Measurement Group has created a World Wide Web site on the Internet for the 1994-1999 HRSA SPNS Cooperative Agreement. The Cooperative Agreement consists of 27 projects and an Evaluation and Dissemination Center (EDC). The 27 projects were funded to develop innovative models of HIV/AIDS care. The projects fall into five work groups: Capitated Care Models; Community Based Organizations; Comprehensive Healthcare Model; Infrastructure Change-Advocacy, and Training. The EDC is a collaborative project by The Measurement Group and PROTOTYPES. Both agencies are located in Culver City, California.

As a way of publicizing the activities of the 27 grantees and the EDC, The Measurement Group has established a World Wide Web site at the address www.TheMeasurementGroup.com/edc.htm. While this site initially contains information about the 27 Cooperative Agreement grantees, within the next months information will be added about the HRSA Women's Initiative (WIN) Projects and HRSA/HAB's SPNS Adolescent Care grantees. The Measurement Group assists in the evaluation of all three groups of grantees, and PROTOTYPES also collaborates in the EDC for the WIN grantees.

The contents of the web site include descriptions of the grantees, lists of project directors and HRSA staff, various mailing lists, the first-year report of the Cooperative Agreement, and complete information on the cross-cutting strategy for the Cooperative Agreement. A special section of the web page lists the abstracts from the International AIDS Conference in Vancouver in July 1996 which were presented by member projects. There are hotlinks from the titles in the reference list to the actual abstracts as they appeared in the conference program.

In addition, the site contains all issues of SPNS/Fax, this electronic newsletter on the Cooperative Agreement Projects. The issues of SPNS/Fax on the Web have enhanced graphics. The Web site also features numerous hotlinks from the project descriptions, project directors, and HRSA project officers to additional information sections and email addresses. Additional materials presented by the projects including convention and scientific papers, abstracts, manuals, and brochures will be added to the site as they are developed. In addition to the information about the Special Projects of National Significance Program and its grantees, the site contains a series of hotlinks to more than 50 national web sites containing HIV/AIDS information.

Fax-on-demand system at 310.216.0702: The Measurement Group developed a fax-on-demand system that contains much of the same content as the Web site. To access the fax-on-demand system, callers dial 310.216.0702. A computer-controlled voice mail system responds, listing a number of options on obtaining different documents. The system provides numbers for ordering each available document. Callers then select documents by entering the provided order number(s) on their telephone keypad. Once the order numbers for all desired documents are entered, callers key in their fax number. The fax-on-demand system then faxes ordered documents to the caller's fax machine.

First time callers may wish to request a fax listing of all document order numbers rather than relying on the computer-controlled voice listing. To request the overall index to the system, call the system 310.216.1051, press "1" on your phone pad to enter Mailbox 1, then press "1, 1" (number 1 twice in succession) to select the index. Document numbers on the faxed index will allow callers to make selections more rapidly in future calls to the system.

Both systems were designed by G. J. Huba, Ph.D., and Lisa A. Melchior, Ph.D. The Web page was programmed by Clayton L. Meixel. The fax-on-demand system was programmed by C. Tai Kuo. For more information about either the Web site or the fax-on-demand system, contact the Director of the Evaluation and Dissemination Center, George J. Huba, Ph.D., at The Measurement Group, 5811A Uplander Way, Culver City, California 90230.

SPNS/Fax is produced by The Measurement Group–PROTOTYPES Evaluation and Dissemination Center (EDC). Editorial comments should be made to The Measurement Group at 5811A Uplander Way, Culver City, California 90230, 310.216.1051, 310.670.7735 (fax).
 

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