Deadline: 22-Feb-22
The Centers for Disease Control – CGH is offering grants “Provision of Voluntary Medical Male Circumcision (VMMC) for HIV Prevention in the Republic of South Africa under the President’s Emergency Plan for AIDS Relief (PEPFAR)”.
The purpose of this NOFO is to provide support to the SAG in the further scale-up of VMMC services in 27 high-HIV-burden districts, with a particular focus on areas with low male circumcision coverage. The support is expected to contribute to the SAG rapid achievement of ≥ 80% of VMMC coverage in males aged 15-29.
Strategies
PEPFAR-supported implementing partners, and other VMMC program stakeholders to implement the following strategies:
- Implement effective and innovative demand creation strategies to promote the uptake of VMMC services;
- Employ evidence-based service delivery modalities to ensure high-quality, high-volume, cost-efficient VMMC services to improve service uptake;
- Support the implementation and integration of VMMC services into the comprehensive HIV prevention, care and treatment service package;
- Build the capacity of all VMMC service delivery personnel by providing quality training, mentoring, skill-building, and ongoing education;
- Strengthen the management of forecasting, procurement, quality assurance (QA), storage and distribution of VMMC surgical kits and other VMMC-related commodities; and
- Provide technical assistance (TA) to support the transition, integration, and monitoring of direct VMMC services to the Department of Health (DoH) and to public health facilities
Funding Information
- Approximate Total Fiscal Year Funding: $50,000,000
- Approximate Average Award: $50,000,000 Per Budget Period
- Total Period of Performance Length: 5 year(s)
- Estimated Award Date: September 30, 2022
Eligibility Criteria
- 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
For more information, visit https://www.grants.gov/web/grants/view-opportunity.html?oppId=335354