Support the Ministry of Health (MOH) to Scale up and Improve HIV/AIDS Prevention, Care, and Treatment Services in the Kingdom of Lesotho under the President?s Emergency Plan for AIDS Relief (PEPFAR)
Funding Opportunity Number: CDC-RFA-GH15-1547 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 20, 2014Award Ceiling: $1,500,000Expected Number of Awards: 1Creation Date: Oct 03, 2014Funding Opportunity Description: The overarching purpose of this funding opportunity announcement (FOA) is to strengthen the capacity of Lesotho Ministry of Health (MOH), to enhance the response to the Lesotho HIV/AIDS epidemic through the rapid expansion and high quality HIV/AIDS prevention, care and treatment programs.
The major objectives are:
? To improve human resource capacity development to provide enhanced and continuous HIV/AIDS and TB services
? To strengthen the strategic information (SI) system capacity to generate national and district level data on HIV/AIDS for effective and efficient implementation of programs
? To enhance the laboratory services to improve and meet the HIV/AIDS treatment targets
? To improve procurement and supply chain management and/commodity security to meet the targets
? To enhance the capacity of MOH to effectively coordinate the scale up of quality improvement strategies for HIV/AIDS and TB services nationwide
Source: Grants.gov - Category: Research Tags: Health Source Type: funding
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