Are you ready to make a difference in the fight against HIV/AIDS? Look no further than the latest announced open grant opportunities by donors, available now in February 2024. With a range of funding options designed to support innovative projects and approaches, there’s never been a better time to join the fight against this devastating disease. So why wait? Take the first step towards making a real impact and explore our open grants today.
Request for Applications: HIV Cure-Related Research Program in Africa
Deadline: 15 April 2024
CRDF Global is currently accepting applications from research institutions located in Africa for the Competition titled ‘HIV Cure-Related Research in Africa’.
This Competition is organized and administered by CRDF Global, on behalf of the National Institutes of Allergies and Infectious Diseases (NIAID).
Goals and Objectives
- As a result of implementation of grants under this Request for Applications, the following goals and objectives will be pursued:
- Support HIV cure-related research in areas of Africa in which there is a high proportion of people living with HIV.
- To expand the understanding of the persistence of non-subtype B HIV in people on antiretroviral therapy (ART) and the mechanisms of post-treatment control of viremia following cessation of ART.
Areas
Applicants should propose projects in the following areas, but not limited to:
- Developing and optimizing assays to quantify the levels of full-length, intact HIV proviral DNA in individuals living with non-subtype B HIV and to determine the proportion of intact, rebound competent, and defective provirus
- Understanding the virology of the rebound-competent persistent proviral HIV reservoir
- Establishment, tissue and cell type distribution
- Dynamics, including the clonal proliferation of cells harboring HIV provirus and their decay over time
- Studies of the innate and adaptive immune responses to HIV in people living with non-subtype B on ART and the relation of these responses to the rebound-competent viral reservoir, including the sensitivity of the intact reservoir to circulating autologous antibodies and existing T cell responses
- Frequence and mechanism of post treatment control in for people living with non-subtype B HIV
Funding Information
- This announcement will fund awards of no more than $150,000 per applicant for direct costs for one year.
For more information, visit CRDF Global.
Call for Proposals: Implement Sustainable and Effective HIV/AIDS Prevention, Care & Treatment and Health Security
Deadline: 4-Mar-24
The Centers for Disease Control – CGH has announced a call for proposals to strengthen Central Asia’s health systems to reduce new HIV infections and AIDS deaths through the implementation of innovative, evidence-based prevention, testing, care, and treatment services to at-risk populations.
Additionally, this NOFO will strengthen SI systems to achieve HIV epidemic control as well as enhance the ability for the health systems to strengthen public health security, preparedness, and response to emerging and re-emerging diseases.
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 (KPs);
- 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.
Funding Information
- Approximate Total Fiscal Year Funding: $3,200,000
- Approximate Average Award: $3,200,000
- Total Period of Performance Length: 5 year(s)
- Expected Number of Awards: 2
- The expected number of awards is 1-2.
For more information, visit Grants.gov.
Nominations open for Zayed Sustainability Prize
Deadline: 23-Jun-24
Nominations are now open for the Zayed Sustainability Prize.
The Prize fund comes from the Abu Dhabi Government as a way to honour and continue the sustainability and humanitarian legacy of the founding father of the United Arab Emirates, the late Sheikh Zayed bin Sultan Al Nahyan. Masdar, Abu Dhabi’srenewable energy company, managesthe Zayed Sustainability Prize. A dedicated team works on the Prize all year round.
Funding Categories
- Health
- This category recognises organisations that have demonstrated innovative, impactful and inspirational sustainability solutions in the areas of health that include, but are not limited to:
- Ensuring access to essential and affordable healthcare
- Ensuring access to maternal and new-bornhealthcare
- Ending epidemics (AIDS, Malaria, Tuberculosis etc.)
- Preventing and treating water-borne, communicable and non-communicablediseases
- Reducing illness from pollution, hazardous chemicals and contamination
- Organisations must also demonstrate a clear vision and long-term plan to further deploy their solution and scale up their impact, as well as inspiring others to follow suit by advancing sustainable and human development.
- To be eligible for this category, organisations must be a small or medium-sized enterprise (SME) or a non-profit organisation (NPO).
- The Prize fund for this category is US $1,000,000.
- This category recognises organisations that have demonstrated innovative, impactful and inspirational sustainability solutions in the areas of health that include, but are not limited to:
- Food
- This category recognises organisationsthat have demonstrated innovative, impactful and inspirational sustainability solutions in the areas of food that include, but are not limited to:
- Decreasing hunger and malnutrition
- Increasing agricultural or other food processing productivity
- Ensuring sustainability of food systems
- Enhancing sustainable food production
- Organisations must also demonstrate a clear vision and long-term plan to further deploy their solution and scale up their impact, as well as inspiring others to follow suit by advancing sustainable and human development.
- To be eligible for this category, organisations must be a small or medium-sized enterprise (SME) or a non-profit organisation (NPO).
- The Prize fund for this category is US $1,000,000.
- This category recognises organisationsthat have demonstrated innovative, impactful and inspirational sustainability solutions in the areas of food that include, but are not limited to:
- Energy
- This category recognises organisations that have demonstrated innovative, impactful and inspirational sustainability solutions in the areas of energy that include, but are not limited to:
- Ensuring access to affordable and reliable clean energy
- Increasing production of clean energy
- Improving energy efficiency and energy infrastructure
- Implementing clean energy technology innovation
- Organisations must also demonstrate a clear vision and long-term plan to further deploy their solution and scale up their impact, as well as inspiring others to follow suit by advancing sustainable and human development.
- To be eligible for this category, organisations must be a small or medium-sized enterprise (SME) or a non-profit organisation (NPO).
- The Prize fund for this category is US $1,000,000.
- This category recognises organisations that have demonstrated innovative, impactful and inspirational sustainability solutions in the areas of energy that include, but are not limited to:
- Water
- This category recognises organisationsthat can demonstrated innovative, impactful and inspirational sustainability solutions in the areas of water that include, but are not limited to:
- Ensuring access to safe and affordable drinking water
- Ensuring access to sanitation and hygiene
- Increasing water use efficiency
- Organisations must also demonstrate a clear vision and long-term plan to further deploy their solution and scale up their impact, as well as inspiring others to follow suit by advancing sustainable and human development.
- To be eligible for this category, organisations must be a small or medium-sized enterprise (SME), or a non-profit organisation (NPO).
- The Prize fund for this category is US $1,000,000.
- This category recognises organisationsthat can demonstrated innovative, impactful and inspirational sustainability solutions in the areas of water that include, but are not limited to:
- Climate Action
- The category recognises organisations that have demonstrated innovative, impactful and inspirational solutions producing positive results in the following areas:
- Climate Adaptation and resilience building
- Sustainable Land Use and Forest Conservation
- Nature-based solutions for conserving/restoring ecosystems and natural resources or carbon removal
- Carbon Capture, Usage and Storage
- The solution may be an approach, service and/or product that can be directly attributed to a quantifiable positive impact pertaining to the areas mentioned above.
- Organisations must also demonstrate a clear vision and long-term plan to further deploy their solution and scale up their impact, as well as inspiring others to follow suit by advancing sustainable and human development.
- To be eligible for this category, the nominated organisation must be a small or medium-sized enterprise (SME) or a non-profit organisation (NPO).
- The Prize fund for this category is US $1,000,000.
- The category recognises organisations that have demonstrated innovative, impactful and inspirational solutions producing positive results in the following areas:
- Global High Schools
- The Global High Schools category recognises high schools or secondary schools, from six global geographic regions that propose innovative, impactful and inspirational sustainability projects in the areas of health, food, energy and/or water. The proposed project could be in one area (e.g. water) or a combination of areas (e.g. health, food, energy, water and climate action).
- The Prize is intended to encourage students to develop and implement their sustainability ideas and is not aimed at administrative projects or educational reforms at the school.
- The award in this category is not given for past achievements but will enable students from winning high schools to implement sustainability projects in their own schools. These student-led projects must demonstrate innovative approaches to address sustainability challenges and inspire students to take active roles in sustainable development.
- The application must be submitted by the students and supported by the school management. The projects must:
- demonstrate how they meet the three criteria: impact, innovation, inspiration, as explained in the Evaluation Criteria section of this page;
- be able to be implemented and operational within one to two years; and
- benefit the school community and/or their local/regional community for several years.
- In each of the following six global regions, one school will win up to US $150,000.
For more information, visit Zayed Sustainability Prize.
USAID: Achieving and Sustaining HIV/TB Epidemic Control in the Free State Province (South Africa)
Deadline: 04-Apr-2024
The United States Agency for International Development in Southern Africa (USAID/SA), through the Regional Office of Acquisition and Assistance (ROAA) is seeking applications for a Cooperative Agreement for funding of an activity entitled “Achieving and Sustaining HIV/TB Epidemic Control in the Free State Province.
Funding Information
- USAID intends to award one (1) Cooperative Agreement pursuant to this NOFO. Subject to funding availability and at the discretion of the Agency, USAID intends to provide up to $54 million in total USAID funding over a 5-year period.
Activity Goal, Objectives and Intended Result
- Goal
- The goal of the Activity is to promote long, healthy lives for the population of the Free State Province by achieving and sustaining HIV/TB epidemic control
- Objectives & Results
- Objective 1: Close the gaps to achieve HIV/TB epidemic control
- Complex barriers to access quality health care, client psychosocial barriers, and treatment hesitancy lead to failed treatment initiations and treatment interruptions. This is especially challenging in the Free State Province where the population is severely impacted by poverty, unemployment, migration and other social issues. The Activity will support innovative integrated, simplified, client-centered HIV/TB prevention and treatment models that facilitate lifelong healthy outcomes for all PLHIV and prevent onward HIV and TB infections.
- IR 1.1 Improved pediatric, children, adolescents, and youth HIV treatment outcomes through tailored approaches
- Expected Outcomes
- 95% of children and adolescents know their HIV status.
- 95% of children and adolescents who know their HIV status are receiving ART.
- Expected Outcomes
- IR 1.2 Improved adult clinical outcomes for HIV through sustainable and locally-led social support services and client-centered approaches
- Expected Outcome
- 95% of adult PLHIV know their HIV status.
- 95% of PLHIV who know their HIV status are receiving ART.
- Expected Outcome
- IR 1.3 Reduced HIV/TB coinfection for pediatric and adults through enhanced and targeted programming for improved treatment outcomes
- Expected Outcomes:
- 90% of TB cases are diagnosed.
- 100% of people with TB infection receive treatment.
- Expected Outcomes:
- IR 1.4 Strengthened and targeted integration of HIV prevention interventions, particularly for priority populations such as AGYW, adolescent boys and young men (ABYM), and key and vulnerable populations at risk
- Expected Outcomes:
- 100% of supported sites provide friendly services for key and priority populations.
- 100% of supported sites link at-risk adolescents and youth to prevention services.
- Expected Outcomes:
- IR 1.5: Improved awareness and engagement in HIV/TB care, treatment, and prevention programs through strategic marketing and communications
- Expected Outcomes:
- Improved and sustainable client literacy, awareness and uptake of HIV care, treatment, and prevention services.
- Locally-designed and sustainable strategic health communications and marketing campaigns, particularly for key and vulnerable populations developed and implemented.
- Expected Outcomes:
- Objective 2: Sustain health gains through strengthened, improved and resilient health systems
- As South Africa progresses toward the elimination of HIV and TB as public health threats, the management of HIV, as a chronic condition, and TB, as a curable infectious disease, will require a health system that is resilient, well-financed and managed, and efficiently resourced (e.g., human resources, equipment, commodities). Access to care must be equitable and affordable, and the necessary systems for planning for such access must be functional.
- In alignment with Free State DoH priorities, Objective 2 aims to support the elimination of HIV and TB as public health threats and control of other infectious diseases by strengthening the public health system to maintain and sustain this status over time and be resilient in the face of system-wide shocks, such as pandemics, natural disasters and social unrest.
- IR 2.1 Adequate, skilled and motivated HRH in all targeted health facilities to maintain and sustain the delivery of healthcare services to PLHIV
- Expected Outcomes:
- 100% of supported districts have functional and capacitated staffing within approved organizational structures.
- Coordinated and sustained provincial health response in support of the HIV/TB interventions, to strengthen the leadership, management structures and policy implementation
- Expected Outcomes:
- IR 2.2 Essential medicine and commodities, equipment, instruments and devices needed to deliver quality HIV/TB health and other infectious disease services are available at targeted health care facilities
- Expected Outcomes:
- Improved and sustainable systems to ensure medicine and health products availability at health establishments, in line with provincial targets.
- Improved and sustainable data quality and reporting compliance on the National Surveillance Center (NSC) to improve visibility and medicine availability at Health Establishments.
- Expected Outcomes:
- IR 2.3 Sustainable infrastructure, electrification, and telecommunication solutions are identified and developed in collaboration with Free State government counterparts
- Expected Outcomes:
- Strengthened and sustainable systems for documenting health services delivery impacts of infrastructure deficits in supported districts
- Increased advocacy for government counterparts to develop pre-emptive infrastructure deficit mitigation plans
- Expected Outcomes:
- IR 2.4 Utilization and management of existing health information systems and data to guide decision making and client management is strengthened
- Expected Outcomes to be achieved:
- Increased use and sustained implementation of data health systems, data tools and processes by GoSA data staff
- 100% of facilities reporting quality data successfully into GoSA – approved health management information systems (HMIS)
- Expected Outcomes to be achieved:
- IR 2.5 Effective governance and management systems at the district and facility levels (management, planning, budgeting and monitoring systems) are in place
- Expected Outcomes to be achieved:
- Timely adoption and use of the national health policies and guidelines at the district and site levels.
- Strengthened and sustainable functional health governance structures at district and site levels
- Expected Outcomes to be achieved:
- IR 2.1 Adequate, skilled and motivated HRH in all targeted health facilities to maintain and sustain the delivery of healthcare services to PLHIV
- Objective 3: Leverage community, civil society, and private sector partnerships to improve and sustain service delivery and client outcomes
- Objective 3 of this activity therefore aims to support Free State-based program innovation, partner leadership and capacity development, and implementation by leveraging community (including traditional health practitioners), civil society, and private sector partnerships to improve service delivery and client outcomes and to address the social determinants of health that support sustained client retention in care.
- IR 3.1 PLHIV-led and other community organizations are strengthened and actively engaged for improved health outcomes.
- Expected Outcomes to be achieved:
- Continuous consultation and coordination with the Free State Provincial Council on AIDS (PCA) through capacity building (e.g., staffing), and joint program development and reviews.
- 100% of supported districts provide continuous capacity development for selected PLHIV-led structures/community organizations/traditional health practitioners in HIV/TB programs.
- Expected Outcomes to be achieved:
- IR 3.2 Private sector engaged to improve and implement health outcomes
- Expected Outcomes to be achieved:
- Availability, access, and provision of health services for clients through private sector partnerships and innovation.
- Strengthened and sustainable health systems through private sector involvement
- Expected Outcomes to be achieved:
- IR 3.1 PLHIV-led and other community organizations are strengthened and actively engaged for improved health outcomes.
- Objective 3 of this activity therefore aims to support Free State-based program innovation, partner leadership and capacity development, and implementation by leveraging community (including traditional health practitioners), civil society, and private sector partnerships to improve service delivery and client outcomes and to address the social determinants of health that support sustained client retention in care.
For more information, visit Grants.gov.
Unitaid Call for Proposals to eliminate Vertical Transmission and improve Maternal & Newborn Health
Deadline: 12-Mar-24
Unitaid is pleased to announce this call for proposals aimed at catalyzing uptake of country-led and context-specific intervention packages to eliminate vertical transmission and improve maternal and newborn health.
Vertical (mother-to-child) transmission of HIV, syphilis, and hepatitis B virus (HBV) contributes to significant morbidity and mortality in low- and middle-income countries (LMICs) and is targeted for elimination through an integrated approach. This vision for “Triple Elimination” is grounded in evidence demonstrating that linking interventions for HIV with services for other sexually transmitted infections, including syphilis and HBV, improves uptake and optimizes the use of limited resources. The three diseases also share many features, including their epidemiology, routes of transmission, and the core interventions for addressing them. In regions where Chagas is endemic, Triple Elimination is expanded to include congenital Chagas (‘EMTCT Plus’).
The main objectives of this Call for Proposals are the following:
- To support countries to design and deploy integrated elimination programming and generate evidence on effective and scalable implementation models in diverse settings.
- To overcome market barriers that limit access to critical commodities, including availability and affordability challenges impacting diagnostic and treatment products.
- To build demand for integrated elimination programs through people-centered and locally tailored roll-out approaches, including strong, funded community engagement, advocacy and literacy activities.
Criteria
- Unitaid considers working with communities a critical part of generating demand and strongly encourages adopting inclusive approaches, and the early and continued meaningful engagement of communities towards improving the lives and health of the most vulnerable people.
- Unitaid sees value in proposals from South-based lead implementers with experience in leading the implementation of large-scale multi-country projects that support access to health products in LMICs. They also support the meaningful inclusion of South-based sub-implementers, where feasible and relevant, in proposed project implementation consortia.
- Unitaid is committed to climate and environmental action in its investments and expects its partners to make similar commitments. Proposals should clearly indicate:
- Efforts that will be made to minimize carbon emissions from project activities;
- Unitaid is committed to climate and environmental action in its investments and expects its partners to make similar commitments. Proposals should clearly indicate:
- Potential opportunities to contribute to broader climate and/or environmental co-benefits, in synergy with core project objectives.
- Proposals should demonstrate value for money and measurable impact. Proposals should also include analysis of pathways to impact, scalability, and sustainability of key interventions.
- Areas out of scope for this Call include: product development, single-country interventions.
For more information, visit Unitaid.
HIV Research Trust Scholarships 2024
Deadline: 31 March 2024
HIV Research Trust is offering its scholarship opportunities that provides funding in resource-limited settings to early-mid career academics working in all fields of HIV infection.
Annual scholarships are awarded to enable researchers to travel across the globe and bring vital research back to their home institutions. Scholarships should enable the candidate to travel to another research unit (host institution) to acquire new skills and techniques which will develop the candidate’s career and add capacity to the department in which they are based (home institution). Examples of skills and techniques that may be acquired include: clinical management; clinical trial experience and practice; data and trial management; statistical expertise; acquisition of laboratory techniques and analyses; cell and molecular biology.
Funding Information
- The maximum amount scholars can apply for is £10,000 GBP. Applications that exceed this amount will be rejected.
- HIV Research Trust funding can cover the following costs:
- Tuition fees and/or laboratory fees
- Consumables and shipping
- International visas
- Travel costs (including flights and airport transfers)
- Subsistence (for scholarships that include travel over 50km from home institution only)
- Incidentals (including Wi-Fi charges and equipment hire)
- The trust does not provide funds for:
- The purchase of equipment or text books (including laptops and phones)
- Subsistence costs for scholarships that do not require travel over 50km from home institution
- A visa is a prerequisite for all scholarships that include international travel. Funding will not be released until a visa is approved (bar any upfront costs associated with obtaining the visa).
For more information, visit HIV Research Trust.
Apply for ViiV Healthcare Momentum Grants
Deadline: 01-Mar-2024
ViiV Healthcare has announced the Momentum Grants to provide Community-Based and community-led harm reduction services, including HIV prevention, care and treatment programmes for People Who Use Drugs (PWUD).
Funding Information
- Grants of up to £300,000 will be awarded for implementation over a three-year period (£100,000 a year).
What they are looking for?
- Positive Action seeks to support the scale up of Community-Based and community-led interventions that demonstrate effectiveness in providing Harm Reduction Services for PWUDs.
- They are looking to fund interventions which focus on collaboration between PWUD and the broader community, including healthcare providers, law enforcement entities and other government stakeholders to drive referral to, uptake of and retention in Community-Based harm reduction services, including HIV services. These programmes should also involve where possible, PWUD from the community as advisors, outreach workers, peer navigators, treatment-support managers and program evaluators.
- They are particularly interested in organisations who will provide interventions tailored to women in all their diversity. Most Harm Reduction services fail to address the needs of women and as such women face greater barriers to accessing care. This is especially exacerbated for transgender women and female sex workers due to the additional discrimination they face.
- They are also looking for partners who will provide comprehensive healthcare including access to Hepatitis C, TB, Sexual and Reproductive Health (SRH), and where relevant, primary healthcare services. In addition, proposals of work that can provide wrap-around support to PWUDs will be considered, including increasing access to income generation, social (including housing) and legal support.
Eligible Projects
- Your project must focus on scaling up or replicating interventions that are proven to work. It cannot be a new/pilot project.
For more information, visit ViiV Healthcare.
Call for Proposals: Support Access to Justice, Security and Human Rights (South Sudan)
Deadline: 31-Jan-24
The United Nations Development Programme (UNDP) has announced a call for proposals to implement a pilot paralegal scheme at the Juba Central Prison from a legal firm that offer pro bono services, Civil Society Organizations (CSOs), including NGOs for small grants in Central Equatoria State.
UNDP through the Access to Justice and Rule of Law Strengthening program with funding from the Kingdom of the Netherlands seek the services of a competent and reputable registered legal firm, Civil Society Organization or National Non- Governmental Organization with an existing relationship with the National Prisons Service of South Sudan to establish and operationalise the pilot paralegal scheme at the Juba Central Prison. The successful entity will be tasked to build the capacity of selected inmates, prison officers in Juba Central Prison and selected police officers within the stations in Juba, to provide legal aid for the inmates in the Prison and accused persons in police stations to tackle the challenge of prolonged and arbitrary detention for a duration of six months. They will also be expected to strengthen the file tracing process as well as the referral pathway for the inmates in need of legal representation in coordination with the Legal Aid Department and other relevant stakeholders.
Objectives
- The main objective of the grant is to identify national organizations in legal practice – whether law firms, civil society organizations (CSO), national non-governmental organizations (NNGO) or community-based organizations (CBO) – with operational presence and capacity in Juba. They need to have an existing established relationship with the prisons service.
- Operationalize and Implement a client-sensitive legal clinic at Juba Central Prison, focusing on paralegal legal aid services for a period of 6 months.
- Provide comprehensive legal advice and representation in civil and criminal cases, as well as administrative matters, with a special emphasis on vulnerable groups, including women, girls, individuals with HIV/AIDS, survivors of sexual and gender-based violence (SGBV), the elderly, and internally displaced persons (IDPs) and returnees.
- Conduct awareness sessions to sensitize inmates on the criminal litigation process, emphasizing their human and constitutional rights, and empowering them to actively participate in and understand the trial process.
- Provide legal aid awareness sessions for newly admitted inmates, offering information on general prison procedures, rules, regulations, discipline, obligations, and rights.
- Offer psychosocial support services to inmates, particularly those in distress, including the newly convicted, individuals suffering from post-traumatic experiences, and those who have experienced bereavement while in prison.
- Identify cases requiring legal representation and assign advocates to represent inmates in legal proceedings, ensuring that their rights are protected throughout the legal process.
- Provide continuous paralegal training to the recruited paralegals at Juba Central prison to enhance their capacity in providing legal aid services within the prison environment, ensuring sustainability beyond the grant period.
- Integrate human rights education within the legal clinic, fostering a culture of awareness and understanding among inmates about their entitlements to a fair and free trial.
- Strengthen existing relationships with national organizations involved in legal practice, including law firms, civil society organizations (CSOs), national non-governmental organizations (NNGOs), or community-based organizations (CBOs), with an operational presence and capacity in Juba.
- Implement a robust monitoring system to assess the effectiveness of the legal clinic, track the outcomes of legal aid services, and identify areas for improvement.
Funding Information
- The budget should be detailed, complete, rational, and realistic, and must not exceed the equivalent of USD 20,000.00.
For more information, visit UNDP.
2024 Positive Action Grants: Open for US Nonprofit Proposals (Multiyear and Single-year)
Deadline: 08-Mar-2024
ViiV Healthcare is inviting applications for the Positive Action Grants to support community-led efforts to disrupt disparities to increase engagement in prevention and care, address stigma, build trust, and elevate the voices of those communities most disproportionately impacted by HIV.
ViiV Healthcare’s Positive Action Grants is currently requesting one- and three-year proposals to support the health and well-being of people living with HIV and people with reasons for prevention through innovative, community-led solutions that address disparities in the epidemic and link people to care.
Funding Information
Organizations applying to Positive Action Grants may request funding in the following three categories:
- General operating support (no maximum) for core support and mission-driven community-based work.
- Project support (maximum $250,000 per year) for organizations implementing innovative projects within ViiV Healthcare’s three focus areas, which should be tailored for your key population focus (if you have one):
- Linkage and Engagement: Services are those that provide people living with and vulnerable to HIV with referrals and resources, health literacy and self-advocacy skills, and direct support for their access and sustained engagement in HIV prevention, care, treatment and supportive services. ViiV Healthcare is particularly interested in efforts that:
- Invest in navigation efforts that support clients through their lived experiences by sharing resources, navigation insights learned from personal experience and/or training, and emotional support that promotes hope and trust.
- Create strong prevention infrastructure for key populations, fueling new ways to reach and engage people in HIV prevention.
- Support for the development and/or implementation of holistic professional/workforce development opportunities for peer navigators and community health workers.
- Support for programs that provide resources for the day-to-day needs of peer navigators and community health workers.
- Support for peer navigators and community health workers to implement a variety of innovative efforts, inclusive of the social determinants of health, to reach and engage people more broadly and holistically.
- Networks for People Living with HIV or Vulnerable to HIV and for Organizations:
- Networks for People Living with HIV or Vulnerable to HIV are formal or informal groups that meet regularly (more than once a year), in-person, virtually, or both. The goals are to: create or strengthen relationships; increase self-advocacy; share information; develop skills; reduce isolation; increase reach and use of resources to support engagement in prevention, treatment and care.
- Support the development and strengthening of safer/brave spaces that validate identities, and build and provide opportunities to connect with holistic, culturally resonant health and supportive care.
- Support for activities and events that elevate the important role that families and allies play in dismantling stigma, homophobia and transphobia that keep people from actualizing their health and wellness goals.
- Networks for Organizations are formal or informal groups that include representatives of organizations. Groups meet regularly (more than once a year), inperson, virtually, or both, to improve service delivery systems, resources or approaches that support access and sustained engagement in prevention, care, treatment and supportive services for people living with or vulnerable to HIV.
- Support training opportunities for safer space facilitators in traumainformed care and other restorative justice and healing-based work.
- Support for leadership development and fellowship programs that offer tangible and focused skills development, career mentoring and networking opportunities
- Support, strengthen and connect community-led organizations and coalitions to enhance the coordinated local and national response to HIV
- Improve the capacity of organizations to provide culturally competent and affirming care that meets the unique needs of key populations
- Networks for People Living with HIV or Vulnerable to HIV are formal or informal groups that meet regularly (more than once a year), in-person, virtually, or both. The goals are to: create or strengthen relationships; increase self-advocacy; share information; develop skills; reduce isolation; increase reach and use of resources to support engagement in prevention, treatment and care.
- Advocacy: Activities are campaigns, leadership strengthening, insights gathering and dissemination, narrative change and culture project efforts that effect policy change, reduce stigma, and improve access and strengthen systems of prevention and care for people living with and vulnerable to HIV. ViiV Healthcare is particularly interested in efforts that:
- Expand harm reduction services and advocacy to successfully engage people who use drugs in care, and support their families and communities.
- Support the decriminalization of HIV at the local and national level.
- Increase access to quality and culturally responsive sexual health education.
- Activate arts and culture as a tool for community engagement, connection, and reducing stigma.
- Increase access to and awareness of the mental health needs of people living with or vulnerable to HIV.
- Linkage and Engagement: Services are those that provide people living with and vulnerable to HIV with referrals and resources, health literacy and self-advocacy skills, and direct support for their access and sustained engagement in HIV prevention, care, treatment and supportive services. ViiV Healthcare is particularly interested in efforts that:
- AMP Grant (maximum $350,000 per year): Knowing small or local projects often can’t access traditional funding sources, and that innovation is often found at the grassroots level, AMP Grant Leads act as an incubator to cohorts of innovative individuals, projects or small organizations leading outreach and engagement efforts that reach people living with or vulnerable to HIV. As part of an expanded effort to place resources directly in the hands of community, AMP Grant Leads provide funds, capacity building, technical assistance, mentorship and more. All AMP Grant requests should focus on the following areas:
- Enhance advocacy, by providing capacity building and leadership development tools for people living with or vulnerable to HIV.
- Develop networks with and for micro-grantees to reduce isolation, foster shared learning and enhance cooperative efforts to combat HIV.
- Activate linkage and engagement projects that break down barriers and help more people connect to care.
- Use arts and culture to engage communities, raise awareness, reduce stigma and build or deepen empathy around People Living with HIV.
- Organizations can apply for multiple grants by submitting one application per project.
For more information, visit ViiV Healthcare.
Public Diplomacy Small Grants Program – Trinidad & Tobago
Deadline: 31-Jul-24
The U.S. Embassy Port of Spain Public Affairs Section of the U.S. Department of State (PAS POS) is pleased to announce that funding is available through its Public Diplomacy Small Grants Program.
Priority Program Areas
- Security
- Support programs that address root causes of gang membership and violent extremism and provide alternatives to criminal involvement.
- Governance
- Support programs focused on transparency and accountability.
- Support anti-corruption efforts and investigative journalism.
- Support programs promoting transparency, accountability, e-governance, and strengthening democratic institutions.
- Support programs that support Venezuelan refugees living in TT.
- Support programs that enhance opportunities and protections for vulnerable communities, including refugees, women, children, people living with HIV/AIDS, and the LGBTQI+ community.
- Support programs that advance protection and quality of life for persons with disabilities.
- Support local civil society organizations to strengthen diversity and rights for vulnerable and marginalized people, including members of the LGBTQI+ community, victims of gender-based violence, refugees and migrant populations, and persons with disabilities.
- Inclusive Growth
- Support programs that contribute to sustainable, inclusive, and equitable economic growth.
- Support programs that improve transparency and public asset management, and more efficient business practices.
- Promote science cooperation for better natural resource stewardship to mitigate impacts of climate change, strengthen resilience against climate change, and create conditions to lower carbon emissions.
- Support programs that advance smart agriculture methods to counter climate change-aggravated risks and increase food security.
Funding Information
- Total available funding: US$200,000
- Award amounts: awards may range from a minimum of US$5,000 to a maximum of US$20,000
- Length of performance period: up to 12 months
- Number of awards anticipated: 15 awards (dependent on amounts)
- Anticipated program start date: Jan 1, 2024
For more information, visit U.S. Embassy in Trinidad & Tobago.
Apply for PEPFAR Zambia Small Grants Program
Deadline: 15-Mar-24
The U.S. Embassy is pleased to announce a new round of funding for the U.S. President’s Emergency Plan for AIDS Relief (PEPFAR) Zambia Small Grants Program.
The PEPFAR Small Grants Program is highly open competition funding which supports projects in three thematic areas: HIV prevention, care for children and Adolescents and Young People (AYP), and projects that promote key and priority population education, treatment, and adherence in Zambia’s HIV response.
Funding Information
- Up to the Zambian Kwacha equivalent of $25,000.00 maximum may be requested.
For more information, visit Grants.gov.