Deadline: 26-Mar-23
The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) is seeking applications for Implementing Innovative Activities to Reach Epidemic Control in Mozambique under the President’s Emergency Plan for AIDS Relief (PEPFAR).
As Mozambique continues to progress towards the 2030 HIV epidemic control goals of the UNAIDS, the country will need to increase focus on interventions that maximize equitable access to comprehensive, person-centered HIV services. This requires robust programs and community led responses that address social, cultural, and legal barriers that hamper equal access to health services for all people living with and affected by HIV, while simultaneously reducing healthcare system-related barriers that affect the provision of HIV services to the populations in-need.
Under the leadership of the Office of the U.S. Global AIDS Coordinator (OGAC), as part of PEPFAR, the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services’ Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (HHS/CDC) works in partnership with host country governments and other key partners to assess the needs of each country and design a customized program of assistance that fits within the host nation’s strategic plan in a manner consistent with the purposes of this NOFO.
Goals and Priorities
Goals and priorities include the following:
- Reducing the prevention and treatment gaps for adolescent girls and young women (AGYW), children, and key populations (KP);
- Strengthening national and local programmatic, financial, and community leadership;
- Designing new partnerships with key private, public, and multi sector entities that can complement existing programs and expand reach;
- Utilizing the PEPFAR platform for broader disease surveillance and public health programming, consistent with the PEPFAR legislative and funding authority;
- Investing in the scale-up of cutting edge behavioral, and implementation science to bend the curve on new infections;
- 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: $2,000,000.
Activities
- In an effort to ensure maximum cost efficiencies and program effectiveness, HHS/CDC also supports coordination with and among relevant partners. Recipients may be requested to participate in the following programmatic activities:
- Scale-up evidence-based programs to identify and close the major HIV gaps among AGYW, children, and key populations;
- Increase impact through strategic coordination and integration;
- Strengthen and leverage key multilateral organizations, global health partnerships, and private sector engagement;
- Encourage country ownership and invest in country-led plans, putting their national and local partners in the lead and actively enabling their growth through design of the program at all phases;
- Build sustainability through investments in health systems;
- Enhance health equity and reduce disparities in access to and uptake of HIV services;
- Improve performance metrics, monitoring and evaluation and the quality of related data; and
- Promote research, development, and innovation to develop a body of knowledge, enhance awareness and increase the skills and abilities of stakeholders (research is not supported by this NOFO).
Eligibility Criteria
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- 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.
- Government Organizations:
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