The following is a list of resources that are typically requested to complete Core NHBS strategies and activities for Year 1 (NHBS among persons who inject drugs, NHBS-PWID).

Personnel

• Project Coordinator
• Field Supervisor
• Field staff (part-time) with sufficient level of effort for the following activities:
  • Conduct formative assessment including key informant interviews, community key informant interviews, focus groups, etc.
  • Conduct a minimum number of interviews to obtain completed surveys from 500 eligible persons who inject drugs (i.e. interviewers)
  • Phlebotomist or other HIV counseling and testing staff (part-time)
  • Coupon manager (part-time)
• Data manager (part-time) to perform NHBS data management duties
• Epidemiologist (part-time) to perform NHBS data analysis and dissemination duties

Travel

• In-State:
  • Sufficient mileage/public transportation costs for field staff

• Out-of-State:
  • 2 key personnel to attend annual Principal Investigators Meeting (including directly funded health department PI)
  • 2 key field staff to attend annual Field Operations Training (including Field Supervisor)
  • 1 key field staff to attend Data Management Training

Supplies

• Rapid HIV test kits
• Rapid HIV test controls
• Supplemental HIV tests for local laboratory testing, if applicable
• Supplies for venipuncture or dried blood specimen collection for supplemental local laboratory HIV testing, if applicable, and additional CDC laboratory testing as indicated
• Office supplies
• Laptops or tablets to administer the NHBS questionnaire in QDS 5.0
• Software to administer the questionnaire in QDS 5.0. Note that new portable computers will also require the installation of QDS 5.0 software.
• Laptop or tablet to operate Coupon Manager program
• Encryption software

Other

• Mobile unit rental or field site location rental
• Mobile unit costs (if applicable): gas, parking, maintenance, insurance, etc.
• Survey incentives (for example, $25*550 or sufficient number to reach 500 eligible persons who inject drugs)
• HIV counseling and testing incentives (for example, $25*550 or sufficient number to reach 500 eligible persons who inject drugs)
• Recruiter incentives (for example, $10*550 participants)
• Community key informant interviews and focus groups incentives (for example, $25 each)
• Shipping for blood specimens to local laboratory for supplemental HIV testing, if applicable
• Shipping for remnant sera/plasma or dried blood specimens to CDC or participating laboratory for additional testing
• Telephone
• Printing
• Staff identification