Expansion and Strengthening of Clinic-Based HIV Related Services in Haiti under the President's Emergency Plan for AIDS Relief (PEPFAR)

Funding Opportunity Number: CDC-RFA-GH15-1530 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: Nov 01, 2014Award Ceiling: $1,600,000Expected Number of Awards: 1Creation Date: Sep 11, 2014Funding Opportunity Description: The purpose of this Funding Opportunity Announcement (FOA) is to build on existing PEPFAR-supported HIV services as well as CDC-supported maternal and child health programs in Haiti and provide support to local indigenous institutions to sustain the delivering of high quality integrated clinical services in a network of service provision in the Northeast and West departments of Haiti. The support for services is to include but is not limited to activities that: (1) improve HIV prevention and care services through expansion and strengthening of HIV testing and counseling (HTC), prevention of mother to child transmission (PMTCT), HIV care including prevention and treatment of opportunistic infections, TB/HIV, and laboratory services in all of these facilities; (2) strengthen anti-retroviral therapy (ART) services in all 5 institutions of this network with a particular emphasis on early ART initiation, adherence monitoring, and retention on treatment; (3) strengthen and expand TB prevention, dia...
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