OpportunityTitle: Civil Society Capacity Building for Advocacy and Response to the HIV/AIDS Epidemic Among Key Populations in India under the President&apos;s Emergency Plan for AIDS Relief (PEPFAR)
AdditionalInformationOnEligibility: This Limited Eligibility Justification is to support the funding of Indian registered Indigenous Local Organizations (ILOs) using Local Capacity Initiative (LCI) funding.
Description: HHS/CDC focuses primarily on two or three major program areas in each country. Goals and priorities include the following:&#149; Achieving primary prevention of HIV infection through activities such as expanding confidential counseling and testing programs linked with evidence based behavioral change and building programs to reduce mother-to-child transmission;&#149; Improving the care and treatment of HIV/AIDS, sexually transmitted infections (STIs) and related opportunistic infections by improving STI management; enhancing laboratory diagnostic capacity and the care and treatment of opportunistic infections; interventions for intercurrent diseases impacting HIV infected patients including tuberculosis (TB); and initiating programs to provide anti-retroviral therapy (ART); &#149; Strengthening the capacity of countries to collect and use surveillance data and manage national HIV/AIDS programs by expanding HIV/STI/TB surveillance programs and strengthening laboratory support for surveillance, diagnosis, treatment, disease monitoring and HIV screening for blood safety; and&#149; Developing, validating and/or evaluating public health programs to inform, improve and target appropriate interventions, as related to the prevention, care and treatment of HIV/AIDS, TB and opportunistic infections.
GrantorContactEmailDescription: PGOTIM
GrantorContactText: CDC  &lt;br/&gt;Procurement and Grants Office  &lt;br/&gt;Technical Information Management Section &lt;br/&gt;Phone 770-488-2700