Deadline: 14-Mar-21
The Department of Health and Human Services, Centers for Disease Control (CGH) is seeking applications for Strengthening the Government of Tanzania’s Capacity to Develop, Implement and Use Digital Health to Achieve HIV/TB Epidemic Control through Interoperable Information Systems, Governance, Quality Improvement and Workforce Support under PEPFAR.
The purpose of this NOFO is to use a technical assistance and mentoring approach to support PHIs and the GoT to establish policy, develop resources, and build efficient, robust and sustainable HIS to provide the quality data needed to achieve and sustain HIV/TB epidemic control. The activities should enable enterprise wide data use for patient care, population health data analytics and CQI activities.
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: $ 8,500,000.
- The expected number of awards is 1-2
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
- Additional Eligibility:
- 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=329098