Deadline: 5 September 2016
The Centers for Disease Control (CDC), an agency of Department of Health and Human Services (DHHS) is seeking applications from eligible organizations to maintain A National Coalition to Enhance STD/HIV Prevention through Promotion of a Holistic Approach to Health and Wellness.
The Coalition brings together national leadership in order to accelerate STD/HIV prevention by advancing a more holistic and integrated public health approach by focusing on health and wellness frameworks, including sexual health in the U.S. These efforts represent an attempt to supplement traditional, disease-specific prevention frameworks with one emphasizing the broader promotion of health and wellness, including sexual health.
Goals
- Strengthen the capacity nationwide to monitor the HIV epidemic, develop and implement effective HIV prevention interventions, and evaluate prevention programs.
- Decrease the number of persons at high risk for acquiring or transmitting HIV infection.
- Increase the proportion of HIV-infected persons who know they are infected.
- Increase the proportion of HIV-infected persons who are linked to appropriate prevention, care, and treatment services.
- Strengthen the capacity nationwide to monitor the epidemic, and develop and implement effective HIV prevention interventions
- Reduce STD rates by providing Chlamydia and gonorrhea screening, treatment, and partner treatment to percent of women in publicly funded family planning and STD clinics nationally.
- Reduce the incidence of primary and secondary (P&S) syphilis.
- Reduce the incidence of congenital syphilis
Funding Information: The estimated total program supplemental funding is $250,000.
Approaches
- Improving health and not solely disease control;
- Ensuring that individuals have universal access to developmentally appropriate sexuality education and clinical preventive services across the lifespan;
- Promoting open dialogue about sexuality and sexual health and wellness.
- Pertinent to a number of public health priorities, including: prevention and control of viral hepatitis;
- Improved reproductive health, including teen and unplanned pregnancy prevention;
- Prevention of sexual and intimate partner violence.
How to Apply
Interested applicants should submit their applications electronically via given website.
Eligible Country: United States
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