Deadline: 19 February 2020

The Department of Health and Human Services, Centres for Disease Control is seeking applications for its Human Resources for Health (HRH) to Achieve and Sustain HIV/TB Epidemic Control in Malawi under the President’s Emergency Plan for AIDS Relief (PEPFAR).

Goals

• • Achieving primary prevention of HIV infection through activities such as expanding confidential counseling and testing programs linked with evidence based behavioral change and building programs to reduce mother-to-child transmission;
  • 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 and use 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;
• 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

Outcomes

Short-Term Outcomes:

• • Increased technical expertise within governmental institutions in the M&E of national HIV program
  • Improved implementation of quarterly supervision and data validation

• Increased availability of age and sex disaggregated data by sub-national unit to inform HIV/ TB program performance
• Increased availability of HIV/TB supply chain information to maintain low levels of stockouts of ARVs
• Increased availability of data on retention in care and reduced loss to follow up
• Increased availability of data on TB, prevention, case detection and treatment
• Increased documentation of births recorded in a civil register by the government

Intermediate Outcomes:

• • Increased use of age and sex disaggregated data for epidemic control and maintenance
  • Increased data management capacity and data quality at all levels
  • Increased supply chain management capacity
  • Improved capacity of GOM to provide birth and death certificates to all citizens and use vital registration data for improved health outcomes
  • Improved capacity of MOH to respond to infectious disease outbreaks

• Increased availability of data to evaluate the impact of HRH investments on HIV/TB services at the site level
• Improved workforce to investigate, monitor, report, evaluate, and act on outbreaks

Long-Term Outcomes

• Improved capacity of MOH to oversee national HIV prevention, care and treatment program
• Improved capacity of MOH to adapt and implement WHO standards and policies and translate them into guidelines and SOPs
• Increased institutionalized capacity to respond to outbreaks and evidence-based public health decisions

Funding Information

Approximate Total Fiscal Year Funding: $5,000,000

Eligibility Criteria

• Government Organizations:
  • Political subdivisions of States (in consultation with States)
• Non-government Organizations:
  • Alaska Native health corporations
  • Tribal epidemiology centers
  • Urban Indian health organizations
  • Nonprofit with 501C3 IRS status (other than institution of higher education)
  • Nonprofit without 501C3 IRS status (other than institution of higher education)
  • Research institutions (that will perform activities deemed as non-research)
• Colleges and Universities
• Community-based organizations
• Faith-based organizations (FBOs)
• For-profit organizations (other than small business)
• Hospitals
• Small, minority, and women-owned businesses
• All Other

For more information, visit https://www.grants.gov/web/grants/view-opportunity.html?oppId=319156