Building Capacity along the Continuum from Prevention to Care and Treatment for Key Populations in the Central America Region under the President's Emergency Plan for AIDS Relief (PEPFAR)

Funding Opportunity Number: CDC-RFA-GH15-1510 Opportunity Category: DiscretionaryFunding Instrument Type: Cooperative AgreementCategory of Funding Activity: HealthCFDA Number: 93.067Eligible Applicants Others (see text field entitled "Additional Information on Eligibility" for clarification)Agency Name: HHS-CDCClosing Date: Sep 26, 2014Award Ceiling: $3,000,000Expected Number of Awards: 2Creation Date: Aug 20, 2014Funding Opportunity Description: The HIV/AIDS epidemic in Central America (CA) is concentrated, with low prevalence among the adult population but high prevalence among key populations (KPs), including men who have sex with men (MSM), transgender (TG) women (male to female), sex workers (SW), and certain ethnic groups, such as the Garifuna. In alignment with the IOM?s recommendations, as well as the Central America Partnership Framework (PF) and the Office of the Global AIDS Coordinator?s (OGAC) ?Sustainability Planning Guidance Document: Advancing Country Ownership in PEPFAR III,? this FOA prioritizes support for concrete efforts that assist ministries of health (MOH) in Central America to lead, manage, coordinate, and implement national responses to their respective concentrated epidemics while sustaining programmatic quality and coverage goals. Funding will support regional activities in 2 geographic clusters: Cluster A (Guatemala, Nicaragua, and Costa Rica) and Cluster B (Belize, El Salvador, Honduras, and Panama). ...
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