OpportunityTitle: Strengthening HIV Strategic Information Activities in the Central Asian Republics of Kazakhstan, Kyrgyz Republic, Tajikistan, Turkmenistan, and Uzbekistan Under the President&#146;s Emergency Plan for AIDS Relief (PEPFAR)
AdditionalInformationOnEligibility: Eligible applicants that can apply for this funding opportunity are listed below:  &#149; Public nonprofit organizations  &#149; Private nonprofit organizations  &#149; For profit organizations  &#149; Small, minority, women-owned business  &#149; Universities  &#149; Colleges  &#149; Research institutions  &#149; Hospitals  &#149; Community-based organizations  &#149; Faith-based organizations  &#149; Federally recognized Indian tribal organizations  &#149; Alaska Native tribal governments  &#149; Indian tribes  &#149; Tribal Epidemiology centers  &#149; Indian tribal organizations  &#149; State and local governments or their Bona Fide Agents (this includes the District of Columbia, the Commonwealth of Puerto Rico, the Virgin Islands, the Commonwealth of the Northern Marianna Islands, American Samoa, Guam, the Federated States of Micronesia, the Republic of the Marshall Islands, and the Republic of Palau)  &#149; Political subdivisions of States (in consultation with States)  &#149; Non-domestic (non U.S.) entity  &#149; Other (specify)  A Bona Fide Agent is an agency/organization identified by the state as eligible to submit an application under the state eligibility in lieu of a state application.  If applying as a bona fide agent of a state or local government, a letter from the state or local government as documentation of the status is required.  Attach with &#147;Other Attachment Forms&#148; when submitting via www.grants.gov.
Description: The purpose of this program is to provide technical assistance to the Ministry of Health (MoH) to strengthen and expand Strategic Information (SI) activities in the Central Asian Republics of Kazakhstan, Kyrgyz, Tajikistan, Turkmenistan, and Uzbekistan. This will be accomplished through: (a) development, implementation, and support of innovative surveillance and surveys to provide behavioral and biological data to monitor trends in the HIV epidemic; (b) development, implementation, and support for an HIV Health Management Information System (HMIS) and other public health informatics systems for better information flow from health facilities to the national level (c) collaboration with the MoH, CDC and other partners to develop a national HMIS strategy that enables integration of health-related systems in the lab, pharmacy and clinics; (d) development, implementation and support of monitoring and evaluation (M&amp;E) strategies and tools to track and report programmatic activities; (e) capacity building for the host governments and other local institutions on the three key components of SI, namely disease surveillance, M&amp;E and health informatics/HMIS; and (f) development and strengthening of MoH and local organization&apos;s skills in the areas of data collection, management, analysis, interpretation, presentation, dissemination, and use. Applicants are encouraged to submit a work-plan for as many countries as possible; however, the final determination of country assignment and activity will be decided at the time of the award.
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GrantorContactText: PGO TIMS &lt;br/&gt;grants &lt;br/&gt;Phone 770-488-2700