Deadline: 26 November 2017
The Department of Health and Human Services, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention is seeking applications for its Provision of Comprehensive HIV Prevention, Care, Treatment, and Support Programs in the United Republic of Tanzania under PEPFAR.
The purpose of this NOFO is to support provision of comprehensive HIV care and treatment to all HIV-positive individuals along the clinical cascade, including support for CQI, M&E, and laboratory strengthening. It will also address data quality issues and laboratory and clinical capacity to improve HIV and 8 of 65 TB diagnosis.
Challenges
- Implement an integrated comprehensive care and treatment program along the clinical cascade that includes targeted testing strategies at the facility and community level, linkages to service, treatment initiation (Test and Start), retention, and adherence to attain viral suppression.
- Enhance implementation of Test and Start to all HIV-positive patients, including priority populations such as adolescent girls and young women (AGYW), young adults under 30 years, older men who are difficult to reach, and especially high-risk populations such as men who have sex with men (MSM), transgender (TG) people, people who inject drugs (PWID), female sex workers (FSW).
- Apply differentiated service delivery models (SDM) per the national guidelines to ensure stable patients on ART are monitored from the community so that CTCs have space to accommodate newly identified HIV patients.
- Improve clinical care of HIV/AIDS and related opportunistic infections (OI) such as screening for active TB, STIs, cryptococcal meningitis, and cervical cancer, with referral for diagnosis and treatment as appropriate in all supported sites.
- Strengthen and integrate services for post-gender-based violence (GBV), post-exposure prophylaxis (PEP), emergency contraception, and psychosocial support.
- Implement community-based HIV services to ensure that the continuum of care is facilitated in supported sustained councils.
- Use quality improvement (QI) processes to strengthen facility- and district-level monitoring and evaluation (M&E), surveillance systems, and laboratory diagnostic capacity in priority geographic areas.
- Use evidence-based practices within the gender framework to provide gender-equitable and holistic prevention, testing, and care and treatment services.
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 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 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
Application budgets are limited to $23,783,550 direct costs and must reflect the actual needs of the proposed project.
Eligibility Criteria
- 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)
How to Apply
Applications must be submitted electronically via given website.
For more information, please visit Grants.gov.