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.
- Increased use of data flow and patient flow mapping data use in developing enhanced monitoring, data quality improvement, and HIS strategies
- 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
- Improved routine strategic information activity implementation through development of M&E, surveillance, and HIS frameworks and strategies
- 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
- Increased uptake, application, and use of strategic information knowledge gained through training and capacity building 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
How to Apply
Applicants can apply online via given website.
For more information, please visit Grants.gov.