OpportunityTitle: SUPPLEMENT: Assisting the Ministry of Health and Social Services (MOHSS) in Providing Critical Human Resources for Health to Achieve HIV Epidemic Control in Namibia under the President&apos;s Emergency Plan for AIDS Relief (PEPFAR)
AdditionalInformationOnEligibility: Inadequate human resources pose a major challenge for Namibia.  Eighty percent of Namibia&apos;s doctors work in the private sector, but only 20% of the population seeks health care through the private sector. Potentia has been working successfully with the MOHSS and other key stakeholders for the past 10 years being a successful recipient of two CDC cooperative agreements to fill these critical gaps in Namibia and scale up HIV Care and Treatment through human resources support in all 13 regions in Namibia. Potentia is the only eligible and capable agency to carry out the proposed program expansion within the specified time frame. First, the program expansion funds (Pink Ribbon Red Ribbon) have been awarded to CDC-Namibia from the Office of the Global AIDS Coordinator for a limited time period of 2 years starting in April 2017. There is not sufficient time to develop, publish, and compete a funding opportunity announcement that will allow implementation of activities within this time line. Second, the proposed program expansion supplement funds for Potentia will build and expand upon existing award activities currently being implemented in the same geographic regions. Third, Potentia is currently providing human resource support and services for the MOHSS Directorate of Special Programs HIV intervention activities through support of nearly 235 staff in these priority regions and nationally.  Namibia labor law and MOHSS human resource requirements are complex.  Introducing a new applicant with insufficient knowledge of these critical attributes will result in an interruption of key HIV intervention services in Namibia.
Description: The goal and objectives of the program is to solicit comprehensive and cost-effective technical assistance, capacity building and program implementation expertise for PEPFAR and Global Fund-supported global health activities (with emphasis on but not limited to HIV/AIDS) in the five programmatic areas listed under the purpose section of this FOA. This announcement will also support Global Fund implementing partners in assessing HIV service delivery and will develop technical assistance plans and strategies. This FOA will not provide direct program implementation. Rather, it will provide technical assistance support to PEPFAR and Global Fund implementing partners engaged in program implementation and scale-up activities.This FOA will support HHS/CDC&#8217;s efforts to provide high-quality, targeted technical assistance to ensure that the PEPFAR and Global Fund-supported countries have the capacity and necessary technical expertise to assume responsibility for service delivery and adequately respond to their HIV epidemics. While this announcement will address several of the overall program goals and objectives, it will primarily focus on five critical PEPFAR-supported technical areas. Applicants are expected to respond to one or more of the following program areas:Prevention of Mother-to-Child Transmission of HIV/AIDS (PMTCT);HIV Care and Treatment Clinical Services for adults and children;HIV Pediatric Care and Treatment (PEDs);Surveillance and Strategic Information (SI); andLaboratoryThrough this supplemental funding opportunity announcement (FOA), the successful will provide human resource (HR) services and support to recruit and compensate qualified individuals, contractors, and consultants in seven high HIV burden areas in Oshana, Omusati, Ohangwena, Oshikoto, Kavango, Zambezi, and Khomas with an estimated population of 1 million with the goal of strengthening the health information management system of the MOHSS. These critical human resources for health will allow the MOHSS to better meet PEPFAR objectives and achieve HIV Epidemic Control (HEC) in Namibia. PEPFAR Namibia is committed to supporting Namibia&#8217;s National Strategic Framework (NSF) for HIV (can be obtained from the Namibia MOHSS; not available online) in providing 95% of all eligible people living with HIV (PLHIV) with anti-retroviral therapy (ART) by 2017. By meeting this target, Namibia will be able to control the HIV epidemic and ultimately achieve an AIDS-free generation.Namibia is faced with one of the most severe public-health workforce shortages in the world. This FOA aims specifically to increase access to and the supply of qualified health professionals, technical specialists, and administrative support staff in the seven high HIV burden regions through the following HR services and support: advertisement, recruitment, deployment, compensation, payroll administration, personnel support, and human resource management (HRM). In addition, this FOA will increase access to technical expertise through short-term contracts and consultants in the high HIV burden regions mentioned above.
GrantorContactEmailDescription: OGSTIMS
GrantorContactText: If you have difficulty accessing the full announcement electronically, please contact: &lt;br/&gt; &lt;br/&gt;Technical Information Management Section  &lt;br/&gt;CDC Office of Financial Resources  &lt;br/&gt;Office of Grants Services  &lt;br/&gt;2920 Brandywine Road, MS E-14  &lt;br/&gt;Atlanta, GA 30341  &lt;br/&gt;Telephone: 770-488-2700  &lt;br/&gt;E-mail: ogstims@cdc.gov
CloseDateExplanation: Electronically submitted applications must be submitted no later than 11:59 p.m., ET, on the listed application due date.