Deadline: 23-Mar-21
The U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (DHHS), Centers for Disease Control (CDC) is seeking applications for Advancing Comprehensive Community-Based HIV Services to Achieve Epidemic Control in Namibia under the U.S. President’s Emergency Plan for AIDS Relief (PEPFAR).
The purpose of this NOFO is to provide a comprehensive package of HIV and TB community-based services including index contact testing, HIV Self -Testing, linkage to care, and adherence and retention in care support services in all fourteen regions of the country.
Key Strategies
- Implement and provide TA for community-based index testing with fidelity as well as integrating self-testing to find “healthy men” in the community. Enhance pediatric and adolescent index case-finding.
- Ensure direct and immediate (>95%) linkage to treatment for HIV-positive clients within 7 days and provide high impact prevention services for high-risk negatives.
- Enhance adherence and retention on ART treatment by establishing and providing TA for CAGs for ART patients.
- Conduct and provide TA for community tracing of patients who missed clinical appointments by more than 7 days to ensure clients are returned and remain in care.
- Conduct and provide TA for community tracing of pregnant women, linkage to ANC and ART, and tracking during breastfeeding to ensure viral load suppression (VLS) and early infant diagnosis (EID) outcomes.
- Conduct and provide TA for community-based TB screening and refer TB suspects for TB treatment as well as support retention on TPT for all PLHIVs as an integral and routine part of the HIV clinical care package.
Funding Information
- Approximate Total Fiscal Year Funding: $ 6,000,000
Eligibility Criteria
- Unrestricted (i.e., open to any type of entity)
- Government Organizations:
- State governments or their bona fide agents (includes the District of Columbia)
- Local governments or their bona fide agents
- Territorial governments or their bona fide agents in the Commonwealth of Puerto Rico, the Virgin Islands, the Commonwealth of the Northern Marianna Islands, American Samoa, Guam, the Federated States of Micronesia, the Republic of the Marshall Islands, and the Republic of Palau
- State controlled institutions of higher education
- American Indian or Alaska Native tribal governments (federally recognized or state-recognized)
- Non-government Organizations
- American Indian or Alaska native tribally designated organizations
- Other
- Ministries of Health
- In addition to the entities listed above, the following entities are eligible to apply for this NOFO:
- Government Organizations:
- Political subdivisions of States (in consultation with States)
- Non-government Organizations:
- Alaska Native health corporations
- Tribal epidemiology centers
- Urban Indian health organizations
- Nonprofit with 501C3 IRS status (other than institution of higher education)
- Nonprofit without 501C3 IRS status (other than institution of higher education)
- Research institutions (that will perform activities deemed as non-research)
- Colleges and Universities
- Community-based organizations
- Faith-based organizations (FBOs)
- For-profit organizations (other than small business)
- Hospitals
- Small, minority, and women-owned businesses
- All Other
- Government Organizations:
For more information, visit https://www.grants.gov/web/grants/view-opportunity.html?oppId=329181