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COMMERCE BUSINESS DAILY ISSUE OF MARCH 25,1998 PSA#2059

U.S. Agency for International Development, M/OP/A/HRN, Room 7.10-031, Ronald Reagan Building, 1300 Pennsylvania Avenue, N.W., Washington, D.C. 20523-7101

R -- COOPERATIVE AGREEMENT TO PROVIDE THE CONTRACEPTIVE RESEARCH AND DEVELOPMENT PROGRAM POC Contact Point: K. Frascella, via internet: kfrascella@usaid.gov, Tel: 202/712-5977, Fax: 202/216-3052 USAID intends to sign a five-year, non-competitive cooperative agreement with Eastern Virginia Medical School for a program to provide The Contraceptive Research and Development Program. The Contraceptive Research and Development (CONRAD) Program, operated by Eastern Virginia Medical School (EVMS) and located in Arlington and Norfolk, Virginia, represents an important resource to USAID for conducting biomedical research on the development of contraceptives and related reproductive health technologies. The project implemented by CONRAD supports research leading to the development of improved and new methods of family planning primarily for use in developing countries. In addition, CONRAD supports research leading to the development of technologies, such as microbicides, which may prevent the transmission of sexually transmitted infections (STIs), including HIV. The primary focus of the CONRAD Program is on the early stages of contraceptive research and development, beginning with targeted or applied research studies and progressing through the first two phases of clinical testing in humans; CONRAD does not support basic research with USAID funds. The Program supports extramural subprojects conducted by investigators in the US and worldwide as well as laboratory and clinical research conducted intramurally at the CONRAD Clinical Research Program housed at the Jones Institute for Reproductive Medicine at EVMS. CONRAD has been successful in leveraging USAID's financial support by attracting additional funding from other sources; for example, private foundations created and currently fund a Consortium for Industrial Collaboration in Contraceptive Research at CONRAD. (0082)

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