Deadline: 25-Jan-22
European Commission is calling for proposals for Action Grants to Support the Implementation of Best Practices in community-based services for the human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) infection and acquired immunodeficiency syndrome (AIDS), tuberculosis, viral hepatitis and sexually transmitted infections.
Objectives
The action aims at strengthening and supporting community-based service organisations in the Member States and neighbouring countries in the implementation of people-centre effective and integrated interventions, as well as linkage to care amongst groups at high risk of contracting HIV/AIDS, tuberculosis, viral hepatitis and sexually transmitted infections. It will also directly contribute to national programmes and public health measures, thus, supporting the implementation of internationally agreed goals.
Funding Information
- Available budget for this topic: EUR 5 000 000
- Proposals to be awarded under this topic: 1-5 Project Grants
- The indicative length of a project is 36 months.
Activities
Activities shall include one or more of the below topics:
- the strengthening and expansion of community voluntary testing, early diagnosis and linkage to care of HIV/AIDS, tuberculosis, viral hepatitis and sexually transmitted infections as well as counselling. They will also pursue harm-reduction, peer support, prison-in-reach and through-care services approaches in hard-to-reach vulnerable groups;
- the implementation and scaling up of tools developed under previous actions and other practical approaches to support community-based activities. This will include implementation and quality assurance of Union-wide standardised indicators on testing and linkage to care and treatment among key risk groups;
- consolidation of the existing network(s) of community-based services in Europe in order to forge closer interaction, facilitate the exchange of best practice and promote innovative approaches fostering the increase of early diagnosis of HIV/AIDS, tuberculosis, viral hepatitis and sexually transmitted diseases and linkage to care in Europe among the most affected groups.
Expected Results
- integrated community-based health services, including prevention, counselling, peersupport, harm-reduction, prison-in-reach and through-care services, as well as testing and linkage to care;
- capacity and network building in the areas of HIV/AIDS, hepatitis and tuberculosis, including training, promotion and use of relevant IT tools towards hard-to-reach populations;
- horizontal support tasks including organisation of meetings and exchange of information facilitating the participation of relevant civil society organisations and networks.
Eligibility Criteria
In order to be eligible for funding, the applicants (beneficiaries and affiliated entities) must:
- be legal entities (public or private bodies) created under Union law or an international organisation, or
- be established in one of the eligible countries, i.e.:
- EU Member States (including overseas countries and territories linked to it (OCTs)
- eligible non-EU countries:
- EEA countries and countries associated to the EU4Health Programme (third countries, candidate countries and potential candidate countries, neighbourhood countries) or countries which are in ongoing negotiations for an association agreement and where the agreement enters into force before grant signature.
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