5 page Alternative Funding Sources for Public Health ProgramHIV/ AIDS PrEP

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PHS 398 (Rev. 01/18 Approved Through 03/31/2020) OMB No. 0925-0001 Page     Form Page 4

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BUDGET JUSTIFICATION

The senior project personnel will be John Ismael King; Principal Investigator assisted by James Omar who will be the overall project coordinator. Their main purpose in the project will be the organization, planning, and coordination to ensure that the project objectives are achieved. The fact that the project will be involving many activities including traveling to collect data that aims at investigating the people's awareness to HIV/AIDS infections, educating them on the possible ways to prevent themselves from HIV/AIDS infections using appropriate methods when having sex besides informing the public about PrEP. It's due to these reasons that John Ismael King and James Omar competency are desired. They are as well mandated to the interpretation of the collected data. John Ismael King and James Omar requested 100% effort 9-month salary of $66,847 and $87,428 respectively for year 01, and an annual percentage increase of 0.5% for the following years. The salary request was inclusive of the Fringe benefits of $9,810 and $1,428 respectively (Siano, & Wysocki, 2018).

Consultant Costs; according to the project proposal, one consultant will be engaged in the project for his assistance. Vincent Jim will dedicate five days per year to the project at the cost of $950 per day. Vincent Jim will assist with the conceptualization of the project design, for instance, advising on the demographic population to be targeted in the prevention program and the specific regions that must be visited for Pep sensitization and data collection. He will also be involved in the review of preliminary and final analyses of the collected information besides giving a scientific assist on the preparation of project reports. His travel and accommodation expenses are estimated at $3,000 for year 01 (Siano et al. 2018).

Sample calculation: (4 days* $950/day + $3,000) = $7,750.

Equipment Costs; a request of $30,380 in year 01 was made to purchase four mobile screening units and HIV/AIDS screening kits. The screening units and kits will aid in analyzing the HIV/AIDS status of the willing participants during the field sensitization exercise that will be conducted on the four identified regions of Florida that are prone to infections. The price estimate is based on six written price quotes from recognized sources.

Supplies Costs; on the supply category, the following were proposed. Project definite office materials and postage; a total of $3,000 are requested in year 01 for definite project materials like, envelopes safeguarding the collected results from the field, burners that will contain the project objectives and goals besides ream papers for preparing questioners that will be used in the field for data collection. Food supplies; a total of $4,000 is requested in year 01 to buy food supplies for hundreds of youths who will participate in the prevention program. Educational supplies; a total of $1,500 is requested for year 01 for buying record books, HIV/AIDS training materials, slides for workshops training among others (Crowther, 2018).

Medical supplies; it is required that each participating in the project have to wear medical attire with a label of HIV/AIDS prevention program. A total of $15,000 is requested for year 01. This amount includes the replacement of worn out clothes amount. Information processing supplies; three IBM desktop computers are required for entering field survey data besides analyzing it. Computer software is also needed to aid the computer programs. A total of $5,000 is requested for year 01 under information processing supplies. Finally testing calendars are also requested to ensure that there is no confusion in the HIV/AIDS testing dates (Corps, 2015).

Travel Costs; the HIH/AIDS prevention and sensitization program was scheduled to take place in 15 regions within the Florida state. The estimated mileage from the central office is 200 miles. The rental cost of hiring one 21 passenger van for transporting the screening equipment, supplies besides staff is approximated at $11,000 (Harrison, & Daniels, 2018).

Investigator Anthony Smith, community outreach coordinator Mazarin Ibrahim and Healthcare specialist Vincent Kim had to travel for national meetings on HIV/AIDS control to be held outside Florida. Their travel aims to present the analyzed data from the findings to the public. The estimated cost for fare, accommodation, and meals are $2,000 per individual. Therefore for the three staff members, a total estimate of $6,000 is required for year 01.

Other Expenses; paper photocopying and printing, as in the case of any project, bulk printing and photocopying of project materials is required to aid in survey and data collection. Also, there is a need for training manuals that lies under the category of paperwork in a project. A total estimate of $3,000 is requested for year 01. Patients report fillings; the patient reports need to be separated from the field collected information. To attain this, there must be an effective filing system to aid the process. To this reason, a total estimate of $4,000 is requested for effective filling of the patients' reports. Participants snacks; to motivate the community individuals who willingly assists in getting the collect field information as far as the project is a concern, they are served with snacks which are estimated at $2,000 for year 01 (Menéndez & Caraman, 2017).

Consortium /Contractual Costs; Emmanuel Jesus and Evans John will have the responsibilities of reducing data and carrying out computer-based numerical investigation via structural modeling equation and latent growth curve investigation of longitudinal information collected during the field study. It's vivid from the calculated initial budget period values and the entire project period that the goals and objectives of the project will be achieved. This is because, the operating cost of all the years is below the direct cost per year limit of $500,000 (Capuano, & Mikulska, 2016).

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