Deadline: 19 February 2020

The Department of Health and Human Services, Centres for Disease Control is seeking applications for its Strategic Use of Surveillance and Epidemiology to Support HIV Epidemic Control in Kenya 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.

Program Outcomes

Short-Term Outcomes:

• • Increased availability of approved protocols and guidelines for national and subnational surveillance priorities
  • Improved implementation of national and subnational surveillance priority activities according to approved protocols and guidelines, including CBS and recency surveillance
    • Increased coverage of facilities reporting new HIV diagnoses (case reporting) at minimum with the goal of achieving longitudinal sentinel event reporting
    • Design and evaluation of methods to ensure de-duplication of HIV cases and linkage of records across multiple service delivery settings
    • Synchronization between CBS and recency surveillance, as well as other health information systems containing relevant sentinel events, such as the National Viral Load and Early Infant Diagnosis systems

• Improved documentation of HIV program reach and impact
• Increased availability and analysis of surveillance and epidemiologic data and surveillance reports for program planning purposes, including CBS and recency surveillance
  • May include reports, peer-reviewed manuscripts, or other sources of data, preferably in publicly available format, including relevant data sets for wider use by the public health and scientific community
  • Increased availability of Kenyan HIV epidemic SI including county level profiles

Intermediate Outcomes:

• • Improved scientific leadership to nurture innovation and adoption in public health surveillance
    • Increased surveys and surveillance activities led by Kenyan institutions such as NASCOP, NACC, Kenya National Bureau of Statistics, and National Public Health Laboratory
  • Increased use of public health surveillance and epidemiological data for strategic program planning and improvement

• Increased and sustained human resource and health systems capacity in HIV surveillance and epidemiology in Kenya
  • Increased capacity of health managers to analyze epidemiologic and programmatic data
  • Increased capacity of health managers to develop and use surveillance reports for program improvement and policy formulation

Long-Term Outcomes:

• Increased understanding of evolving HIV epidemiology in Kenya at national and subnational level
  • Increased availability of final reports and peer-reviewed documentation using Kenya’s national and subnational surveillance data

Funding Information

Approximate Total Fiscal Year Funding: $4,000,000

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=319796