Deadline: 4-Apr-23
The Centers for Disease Control (CDC) is seeking applications for Technical Assistance Services and Programmatic Support to Address National TB Program Needs and Priorities Towards Their Efforts to End TB.
This NOFO aims to address global TB strategic priorities in high TB-burden countries and settings. Strategies and activities outlined in this NOFO will contribute toward the World Health Organization’s (WHO) END TB strategy, STOP TB Partnership’s (STOP TB) Global Plan to End TB (2023–2030), and commitments made during the 2018 United Nations High-Level Meeting (UNHLM) on TB through the United Nations Political Declaration on the Fight Against TB. Recipient(s) will implement activities focused on TB screening and case finding, strengthening TB treatment delivery, TB infection prevention and control (IPC) measures, provision of TB preventive treatment (TPT), and incorporating efforts to reduce barriers such as stigma and discrimination, through evidence-based interventions for TB affected people
The purpose of this NOFO is to achieve a world free of TB by accelerating progress toward the global End TB targets and by reducing TB transmission and morbidity among groups at higher risk for developing TB disease, including household contacts of people with TB, children and adolescents, PLHIV, health care workers, migrants, mobile/displaced populations, and those who work in crowded/congregate settings (criminal justice facilities, mines, etc.).
Funding Information
- Approximate Total Fiscal Year Funding: $1,000,000
- The expected number of awards is 1-2.
- Approximate Average Award: $1,000,000 Per Budget Period
Target Populations
- The target populations for this NOFO include all populations at risk of TB infection and all forms of drug-sensitive and drug-resistant TB disease, including but not limited to household contacts of people with TB, children and adolescents, PLHIV, health care workers, migrants, mobile/displaced populations, and those who work in crowded/congregate settings (criminal justice facilities, mines, etc.).
- CDC’s Division of Global HIV and Tuberculosis (DGHT), Global Tuberculosis Branch (GTB) has also developed a strategic plan to prioritize and focus on specific countries where GTB can apply its core strengths to maximize impact.
- These priority countries are listed below: Botswana, Cote d’Ivoire, Ethiopia, Eswatini, Haiti, India, Kenya, Lesotho, Malawi, Mozambique, Namibia, Nigeria, Rwanda, South Africa, Tanzania, Uganda, Vietnam, Zambia, and Zimbabwe.
- CDC will only fund activities in the priority countries listed above; applicants should only propose to conduct activities in countries included in the above list. Applicants can propose to work in one or more priority countries (up to five).
- Applicants may propose activities as a regional approach if priority countries, up to five, are in close geographic proximity. Geographic prioritization may change over the course of the period of performance based on the burden of disease and evolving program priorities.
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 inforamtion, visit Grants.gov.