DHHS/CDC: Enhancing Sustainable and Integrated Health, Strategic Information and Laboratory Systems for Quality Comprehensive HIV Services through Technical Assistance to the Republic of Rwanda under PEPFAR

Deadline: 12-Mar-21

The Department of Health and Human Services, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) is seeking applications for Enhancing Sustainable and Integrated Health, Strategic Information and Laboratory Systems for Quality Comprehensive HIV Services through Technical Assistance to the Republic of Rwanda under the President’s Emergency Plan for AIDS Relief (PEPFAR).

The goal of this notice of funding opportunity is to enhance sustainable health, laboratory and strategic information (SI) systems by supporting the provision of technical assistance and strategic planning to the Rwandan Ministry of Health (MOH) and other partnering institutions.

This NOFO also aims to strengthen national systems for a comprehensive and integrated HIV response. The recipient will leverage current efforts and implement innovative initiatives to ensure the delivery of quality HIV prevention and treatment services and to strengthen the capacity of essential staff to provide those services.

Goals & Priorities

HHS/CDC focuses primarily on two or three major program areas in each country. Goals and priorities include the following:

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 intercurrent diseases impacting HIV infected patients including tuberculosis (TB); and initiating programs to provide anti-retroviral therapy (ART);
Strengthening the capacity of countries to collect, use, and share 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; and
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: $ 1,000,000

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