Building capacity along the HIV continuum in the Central America (CA) region under the President's Emergency Plan for AIDS Relief (PEPFAR)
Centers for Disease Control-GHC
Summary
The grant aims to enhance the capacity of public health staff in Central American countries (El Salvador, Guatemala, Honduras, Nicaragua, and Panama) to meet the 95-95-95 targets for ending the AIDS epidemic by integrating HIV services into health systems and improving access to testing and treatment. Eligible applicants include independent school districts, higher education institutions, various levels of government, small and for-profit businesses, and nonprofits. Application details are not provided, but interested parties can contact the grantor at pepfarfoas@cdc.gov for more information.
Full description
Description
The Award Ceiling for Year 1 is 0 (none). CDC anticipates an Approximate Total Fiscal Year Funding amount of $20,000,000 for Year 1, subject to the availability of funds.
This NOFO will enhance the capacity of public health staff in El Salvador, Guatemala, Honduras, Nicaragua, and Panama to address gaps in achieving the 95-95-95 targets to end the AIDS epidemic as a public health threat.
Focuses of the NOFO include:
- Integrating HIV services into broader health systems programs and fostering self-reliance.
- Scaling up access to life-saving HIV services for people at high-risk of HIV through the Sentinel Surveillance and Control of STIs (VICITS/CLAM) strategy.
- Improving access to HIV testing through active case-finding strategies, including but not limited to testing as part of outreach for priority populations; index, provide-initiated, and community testing; and self-testing.
- Supporting early treatment initiation, retention, adherence, management of advanced HIV disease (AHD), TB, and opportunistic infections (OIs), access to CD4 count, and viral load (VL) monitoring/suppression, expansion of differentiated service delivery models, and provision of complementary services at a site level.
- Strengthening the skills of healthcare workers to provide lifesaving, high-quality HIV services while also enhancing the capacity of ministries to maintain and continuously improve HIV initiatives, leading to achieving sustainable epidemic control.
Eligibility
Eligible applicants
Education
- Independent school districts
- Private institutions of higher education
- Public and state institutions of higher education
Government
- State governments
- County governments
- City or township governments
- Special district governments
- Federally recognized Native American tribal governments
- Public and Indian housing authorities
Business
- Small businesses
- For-profit organizations other than small businesses
Nonprofit
- Other Native American tribal organizations
- Nonprofits non-higher education without 501(c)(3)
- Nonprofits non-higher education with 501(c)(3)
Miscellaneous
- Unrestricted
Additional information
Grantor contact information
Description
pepfarfoas@cdc.gov
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