Deadline- April 9, 2013
The President’s Emergency Plan for AIDS Relief (PEPFAR) is inviting applications for funding opportunity in Provision of Comprehensive Care and Treatment Programs by Local Indigenous Entities in the United Republic of Tanzania. The purpose of offering this opportunity is to serve HIV infected people with effective combination anti-retroviral therapy (ART).
Goals and priorities included-
- 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; and
- 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.
Eligibility & Criteria-
- Local indigenous institutions of higher education, Local indigenous not-for-profit organizations, Local indigenous regional organizations, Local indigenous parastatal organizations, Local indigenous hospitals, Eligible Agencies of the local and union government, Local indigenous faith-based and community-based organizations, Consortiums whose memberships consists only of any of the above local indigenous applicants, Other
- A Bona Fide Agent is an agency/organization identified by the state as eligible to submit an application under the state eligibility in lieu of a state application.
For more information, visit grants.gov and search by funding opportunity number.CDC-RFA-GH13-1322
