Deadline- April 3, 2013
Applications are invited for Strengthening Human Resources for Health through Public Health Training Improvements in Tanzania offered by The President’s Emergency Plan for AIDS Relief (PEPFAR). This program will take place at Muhimbili University of Health and Allied Sciences (MUHAS), School of Public Health and Social Sciences (SPHSS) in the United Republic of Tanzania.
The purpose of this program is to support a local, sustainable response to HIV and other critical public health issues in Tanzania through strengthening the capacity of Muhimbili School of Public Health and Social Sciences (MUHAS SPHSS) to train specialists that will provide high quality public health services and conduct quality, locally relevant research. Through the support of this FOA, MUHAS SPHSS will be strengthened to play a national and regional leadership role in public health training and research.
Programs focus will be-
- 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-
- Eligible applicants that can apply for this funding opportunity will be Nonprofit with 501C3 IRS status ,Nonprofit without 501C3 IRS status , For-profit organizations, Small, minority, and women-owned businesses, Universities, Colleges, Research institutions, Hospitals, Community-based organizations, Faith-based organizations, Federally recognized or state-recognized American Indian/Alaska Native tribal governments, American Indian/Alaska native tribally designated organizations, Alaska Native health corporations, Urban Indian health organizations, Tribal epidemiology centers, State and local governments or their Bona Fide Agents (this includes the District of Columbia, the Commonwealth of Puerto Rico, the Virgin Islands, the Commonwealth of the Northern Marianna Islands, American Samoa, Guam, the Federated States of Micronesia, the Republic of the Marshall Islands, and the Republic of Palau, Political subdivisions of States (in consultation with States), Non-domestic (non-U.S.) entity, 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-GH13-1323
