Deadline: 17 October 2016
The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), an agency of Department of Health and Human Services (DHHS) is seeking applications from eligible organizations for a program entitled “Strengthening National Capacity for Integrated HIV/AIDS Health Data Collection, Use, and Dissemination in Support of an Evidence-based Response in South Sudan under the President’s Emergency Plan for AIDS Relief (PEPFAR)”.
Goals
- Achieving primary prevention of HIV infection through activities such as expanding confidential counseling and testing programs linked with evidence based behavioral change and building programs to reduce mother-to-child transmission;
- Improving the care and treatment of HIV/AIDS, sexually transmitted infections (STIs) and related opportunistic infections by improving STI management; enhancing laboratory diagnostic capacity and the care and treatment of opportunistic infections; interventions for inter-current diseases impacting HIV infected patients including tuberculosis (TB); and initiating programs to provide anti-retroviral therapy (ART);
- Strengthening the capacity of countries to collect and use surveillance data and manage national HIV/AIDS programs by expanding HIV/STI/TB surveillance programs and strengthening laboratory support for surveillance, diagnosis, treatment, disease monitoring and HIV screening for blood safety;
- Developing, validating and/or evaluating public health programs to inform, improve and target appropriate interventions, as related to the prevention, care and treatment of HIV/AIDS, TB and opportunistic infections.
Funding Information
- Approximate Total Fiscal Year Funding: $3,500,000
- Total Project Period Length: 5 year(s)
Focus Activities
- Implement a woman- and girl-centered approach;
- Increase impact through strategic coordination and integration;
- Strengthen and leverage key multilateral organizations, global health partnerships and private sector engagement;
- Encourage country ownership and invest in country-led plans;
- Build sustainability through investments in health systems;
- Improve metrics, monitoring and evaluation;
- Promote research, development and innovation
Expected Outcomes
- Short-Term Outcomes
- Increased skilled health center staff for health reporting including HIV/AIDs indicators through DHIS-2
- Increased knowledge/use of South Sudan’s progress towards reaching Global 90-90-90 HIV targets and understanding the clinical cascade leakage at national and sub-national level
- Increased availability of program and survey reports disseminated to various audience
- Increased comprehension and use of national HIV guidelines by stakeholders for HIV programming
- Increased involvement of decision makers, community leaders and mainstreaming of HIV in government sectors through promoting awareness using data presented in reports and surveillance findings
- Ethics and review board guidelines, standards and procedures maintained and shared with relevant stakeholders
- Increased number of skilled laboratory staff in surveillance sample collection, storage and testing
- Intermediate Outcomes
- Increased availability of accurate HIV data in national health reports that are periodically shared with partners
- Increased targeted HIV programming in high HIV burden areas and priority population
- Increased linkage of newly identified HIV-positives to ART through use of case base tracking
- Increased availability of data on specific geographic and population based HIV burdens and behaviors
- Increase in HIV prevention and treatment health research publications
- Increased access to HIV/AIDS prevention and treatment services
- Increase in scores of SI SID rating
- Increased capacity of national laboratories to support collection and testing of HIV biomarkers in surveys and surveillance
- Long-Term Outcomes
- Reduction in general population and key population HIV prevalence
- Decreased community HIV viral load
Eligibility Criteria
Unrestricted
How to Apply
Interested applicants must submit their applications electronically via given website.
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