DHHS-CGH: Strategic Information Support Across Countries Under the Global Fund to Fight HIV/AIDS, Tuberculosis and Malaria and Under PEPFAR

Deadline: 15 October 2018

The Department of Health and Human Services, Centres for Disease Control is seeking applications for its Strategic Information Support Across Countries under the Global Fund to Fight HIV/AIDS, Tuberculosis and Malaria and under the President’s Emergency Plan for AIDS Relief (PEPFAR) to strengthen activities related to strategic information, program and clinical monitoring and evaluation (M&E).

Goals and Priorities

Achieving primary prevention of HIV infection through activities such as expanding confidential counselling 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; 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.

Program Outcomes

Short-Term Outcomes:
- Increased use of data flow and patient flow mapping data use in developing enhanced monitoring, data quality improvement, and HIS strategies
  - Improve development of data flow and patient flow mapping tool
  - Increased implementation of site assessments for data flow and patient flow mapping
  - Increase in program, partner, and site level plans for data quality improvement and enhanced monitoring
- Improved timely program monitoring with development of targeted metrics and enhanced monitoring indicators
  - Improved design of specific indicators providing specific data for program scale up
  - Increase in the number of indicators used for M&E of prevention, care, and treatment programs
  - Increase in the volume of indicator data reviewed in a timely way
- Improved development and implementation of appropriate survey and surveillance protocols for measuring program impact and epidemic monitoring
  - Assess gaps in national and subnational surveillance data
  - Determine appropriate surveillance methodologies to address gap
  - Improved data use and evidence base for assessing program impact
- Increased targeted and specific analyses and improve population estimates through development of novel statistical and modelling methods
  - Improve analytical methods for answering complex programmatic questions
  - Improve methods for effective modelling for population denominators for clinical cascades.
Intermediate Outcomes:
- Improved routine strategic information activity implementation through development of M&E, surveillance, and HIS frameworks and strategies
  - Improved communication with partners and stakeholders with documentation of agreed upon strategic information activities
  - Decrease in data gaps with assessment of current and needed activities
- Increased availability, analysis, and use of reliable and accurate HIV/TB routine data for programmatic monitoring, planning, and policy decision making
  - Improved program monitoring with accessible program data
  - Increase in confidence of program reach
- Improved use and functionality of HIV/TB program and laboratory information management systems
  - Increased confidence in using appropriate and user friendly data and information systems
  - Improved evidence base for timely program modifications
- Improved operationalization, implementation, and scale-up of M&E data quality improvement strategies, tools, and activities
  - Increase in confidence of reporting data
  - Improved partner and site-level management of patients
- Improved development and implementation of appropriate survey and surveillance protocols for measuring program impact and epidemic monitoring
  - Increase in awareness of the need for impact data
  - Improve the ability to develop representative clinical cascades
Long-Term Outcomes:
- Increased uptake, application, and use of strategic information knowledge gained through training and capacity building activities
  - Increase in host country led strategic information activities
  - Decrease in technical support required for implementation of strategic information activities

Funding Information

The Award Ceiling of this NOFO is $10,000,000.

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
For-profit organizations (other than small business)
Hospitals
Small, minority, and women-owned businesses
All Other