This grant is aimed at supporting the University of Stellenbosch in continuing the implementation of the HPTN 071 PopART project to reduce HIV transmission in South Africa. The grant addresses the challenges of scaling up HIV clinical services to reach more patients with quality prevention, care, and treatment services, ultimately aiming for epidemic control. Additional funding is required due to changes in labor laws impacting minimum wage payments for Community HIV Care Providers (CHiPs) workers.
Opportunity ID: 286891
General Information
| Document Type: | Grants Notice |
| Funding Opportunity Number: | CDC-RFA-GH11-11520502SUPP16 |
| Funding Opportunity Title: | Program Expansion Supplement for Planning, Implementation and Evaluation of Comprehensive HIV Prevention Programs in South Africa under PEPFAR |
| Opportunity Category: | Discretionary |
| Opportunity Category Explanation: | – |
| Funding Instrument Type: | Cooperative Agreement |
| Category of Funding Activity: | Health |
| Category Explanation: | – |
| Expected Number of Awards: | 1 |
| Assistance Listings: | 93.067 — Global AIDS |
| Cost Sharing or Matching Requirement: | No |
| Version: | Synopsis 1 |
| Posted Date: | Aug 02, 2016 |
| Last Updated Date: | – |
| Original Closing Date for Applications: | Oct 01, 2016 Electronically submitted applications must be submitted no later than 11:59 p.m., ET, on the listed application due date. |
| Current Closing Date for Applications: | Oct 01, 2016 Electronically submitted applications must be submitted no later than 11:59 p.m., ET, on the listed application due date. |
| Archive Date: | Oct 31, 2016 |
| Estimated Total Program Funding: | $876,491 |
| Award Ceiling: | $876,491 |
| Award Floor: | $0 |
Eligibility
| Eligible Applicants: | Others (see text field entitled “Additional Information on Eligibility” for clarification) |
| Additional Information on Eligibility: | Eligible entities for this announcement are listed below: TB/HIV Care Association |
Additional Information
| Agency Name: | Centers for Disease Control – CGH |
| Description: | RSA is home to the world’s largest HIV epidemic with an estimated 6.4 million adults and children living with HIV in 2012. The country also ranks third among countries with the highest burden of TB in the world, after the more populous India and China, with increasing incidence of multidrug-resistant (MDR-TB) and extensively drug-resistant TB. To address the HIV epidemic, RSA has scaled up HIV clinical services to over 3,500 public health facilities providing antiretroviral therapy (ART) to over 2.7 million adults and children by the end of 2014. With the largest HIV epidemic globally, RSA is at a pivotal stage in addressing its epidemic. While a massive scale-up has been achieved to date, there remain continued service delivery and systems strengthening needs as the programs expand to reach increasing numbers of patients with quality prevention, care, and treatment services to ultimately achieve epidemic control. According to a large-scale review of the national TB and HIV programs conducted in 2013, while great progress has been made to date, key challenges remain in the health system’s capacities and quality service delivery. This SEJ is for the purpose of providing additional funding and time to enable the University of Stellenbosch (GH000320) to continue implementing the HPTN 071 (HIV Prevention Trials Network) Population Effects of Antiretroviral Therapy to Reduce HIV Transmission (PopART) project. The PopArt project seeks to determine the impact of two community-level combination prevention packages on population-level HIV incidence. The necessity for this additional funding arose as a result of a change in the South African labor law. The implementation of the South African Labor Relations Amendment Act of 2014 in March 2015 resulted in an increase in minimum wage payments. On the PopART project, the salaries of the Community HIV Care Providers (CHiPs) workerswere then raised significantly and this increase also had a knock-on effect on the salaries of those that supervised the CHiPs workers. |
| Link to Additional Information: | |
| Grantor Contact Information: | If you have difficulty accessing the full announcement electronically, please contact:
Priyanka Rathod
wnv9@cdc.gov Email:wnv9@cdc.gov |
Version History
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Related Documents
Folder 286891 Full Announcement-Full Announcement -> S Africa CDC-RFA-GH11-11520502SUPP16.pdf
Packages
| Agency Contact Information: | Priyanka Rathod wnv9@cdc.gov Email: wnv9@cdc.gov |
| Who Can Apply: | Organization Applicants |
| Assistance Listing Number | Competition ID | Competition Title | Opportunity Package ID | Opening Date | Closing Date | Actions |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 93.067 | CDC-RFA-GH11-11520502SUPP16 | Program Expansion Supplement for Planning, Implementation and Evaluation of Comprehensive HIV Prevention Programs in South Africa under PEPFAR | PKG00226313 | Aug 02, 2016 | Oct 01, 2016 | View |
Package 1
Mandatory forms
286891 SF424_2_1-2.1.pdf
286891 SF424A-1.0.pdf
286891 BudgetNarrativeAttachments_1_2-1.2.pdf
286891 ProjectNarrativeAttachments_1_2-1.2.pdf
286891 SF424D-1.1.pdf
286891 SF424B-1.1.pdf
Optional forms
286891 OtherNarrativeAttachments_1_2-1.2.pdf
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