Deadline: 19 February 2020
The Department of Health and Human Services, Centres for Disease Control is seeking applications for its Human Resources for Health (HRH) to Achieve and Sustain HIV/TB Epidemic Control in Malawi 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 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
Outcomes
Short-Term Outcomes:
- Increased technical expertise within governmental institutions in the M&E of national HIV program
- Improved implementation of quarterly supervision and data validation
- Increased availability of age and sex disaggregated data by sub-national unit to inform HIV/ TB program performance
- Increased availability of HIV/TB supply chain information to maintain low levels of stockouts of ARVs
- Increased availability of data on retention in care and reduced loss to follow up
- Increased availability of data on TB, prevention, case detection and treatment
- Increased documentation of births recorded in a civil register by the government
Intermediate Outcomes:
- Increased use of age and sex disaggregated data for epidemic control and maintenance
- Increased data management capacity and data quality at all levels
- Increased supply chain management capacity
- Improved capacity of GOM to provide birth and death certificates to all citizens and use vital registration data for improved health outcomes
- Improved capacity of MOH to respond to infectious disease outbreaks
- Increased availability of data to evaluate the impact of HRH investments on HIV/TB services at the site level
- Improved workforce to investigate, monitor, report, evaluate, and act on outbreaks
Long-Term Outcomes
- Improved capacity of MOH to oversee national HIV prevention, care and treatment program
- Improved capacity of MOH to adapt and implement WHO standards and policies and translate them into guidelines and SOPs
- Increased institutionalized capacity to respond to outbreaks and evidence-based public health decisions
Funding Information
Approximate Total Fiscal Year Funding: $5,000,000
Eligibility Criteria
- 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
For more information, visit https://www.grants.gov/web/grants/view-opportunity.html?oppId=319156