Deadline: 24-Mar-23
The Centers for Disease Control (CDC) is accepting applications for its Multi-Regional Mechanism for Accelerating and Sustaining Epidemic Control in the Republic of Uganda through the President’s Emergency Plan for AIDS Relief (PEPFAR).
This NOFO supports comprehensive HIV, TB, and related prevention, care, and treatment program implementation to achieve and maintain control of the HIV epidemic and other infectious and non-infectious diseases in Fort Portal, Kampala, Masaka, Mubende, and Soroti regions. Under a sustainability framework, recipient(s) are expected to work with the Ministry of Health (MOH) to strengthen the capacity of regional referral hospitals (RRHs), districts, facilities, and communities to improve person-centered health service delivery.
Activities include health systems strengthening, support supervision, and continuous quality improvement (CQI) in multiple technical areas, including HIV case finding (especially among men, young people, and key populations [KPs]); HIV care and treatment (including advanced HIV disease management [AHD]); elimination of mother-to-child HIV transmission; other biomedical and sociobehavioral HIV prevention programs; TB prevention, diagnosis, and treatment; integration of psychosocial support and other services for non-communicable diseases (NCDs) into HIV service delivery; laboratory systems; surveillance (including HIV recency testing); and data science and informatics (including expenditure analysis). These activities are consistent with the direction set forth in the COP and expected outcomes include improved access, quality, and uptake of HIV services and achievement of 95-95-95 targets.
Goals and Priorities
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
- The expected number of awards is 1-5.
- Average One Year Award Amount: $32,000,000
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
- Ministries of Health
For more information, visit Grants.gov.
