Evaluation of STD Programs Deploying Disease Intervention Specialist (DIS) to Improve Human Immunodeficiency Virus (HIV) Outcomes

Funding Opportunity Number: CDC-RFA-PS15-1511 Opportunity Category: DiscretionaryFunding Instrument Type: Cooperative AgreementCategory of Funding Activity: HealthCFDA Number: 93.977Eligible Applicants State governmentsCounty governmentsCity or township governmentsSpecial district governmentsOthers (see text field entitled "Additional Information on Eligibility" for clarification)Agency Name: HHS-CDCClosing Date: Aug 25, 2015Award Ceiling: $750,000Expected Number of Awards: 4Creation Date: Jun 26, 2015Funding Opportunity Description: This FOA will help advance the goals of the National HIV/AIDS Strategy, by evaluating STD program models that use DIS workforce to improve HIV outcomes, particularly those related to identification of new HIV cases, linkage and re-engagement in HIV care, and linkage and referral to HIV prevention services, including PrEP. This FOA helps address the need to advance National HIV/AIDS Strategy goals related to identifying people with HIV, linking and re-engaging them in care (US NHAS 2010), and to advance HIV prevention through use of Pre-Exposure and Post-Exposure Prophylaxis (PrEP and PEP). The intervention to be evaluated under this proposal is the deployment of the skilled Disease Investigation Specialist (DIS) workforce to focus on these HIV outcomes in their routine interactions with people at high risk of HIV. For decades, state and local STD programs have supported Disease Intervention Specialists ...
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