Scaling up high-impact HIV prevention, testing and treatment models in panama under the president's emergency plan for aids relief (pepfar) - this cooperative agreement will support the ministry of…

The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention awarded a $595,000 cooperative agreement to Ministerio De Salud on December 15, 2025, under the Global AIDS program (CFDA 93.067) to scale up high-impact HIV prevention, testing, and treatment models in Panama under the President's Emergency Plan for AIDS Relief (PEPFAR).

The award supports the Panamanian Ministry of Health to implement WHO and PEPFAR-recommended HIV interventions, including above-site technical assistance to integrate and sustain effective strategies into national guidelines, manuals, and systems. Key prevention and diagnosis activities include index testing, differentiated service modalities at key population testing facilities, self-testing, pre-exposure prophylaxis, recent infection rapid testing, response to clusters of recent transmission, and linkage for newly diagnosed individuals. Treatment activities encompass linkage to care, early antiretroviral therapy initiation, retention support, differentiated service delivery models, advanced HIV disease diagnosis and management, treatment continuity, and reengagement in care. The award also funds technical assistance to increase national-level coverage of HIV and tuberculosis prevention, care, and treatment services, including laboratory and surveillance capacity.

Expected outcomes include increased access to HIV testing among key populations and index case partners, improved public health response to active transmission hotspots, consistently high linkage to treatment, continued pre-exposure prophylaxis scale-up, increased early treatment initiation and adherence, improved access to viral load testing, and sustained viral suppression.

Place of performance is Panama. The period of performance runs through September 29, 2030.

Scaling up high-impact HIV prevention, testing and treatment models in panama under the president's emergency plan for aids relief (pepfar) - this cooperative agreement will support the ministry of health in panama to implemente high impact world health organization and pepfar recommended HIV interventions IT will support above site technical assistance to advance the integration sustainability and continuity of effective perfar supported strategies and other communicable diseases into national guidelines manuals systems and technical assistance to advance and subsequently increase national level coverage of HIV TB prevention care and treatment services including laboratory and surveillance key HIV prevention and diagnosis activities include index texting differentiated service modalities at key population testing facilities self testing pre exposure prophylaxis recent infection rapid testing response to clusters of recent transmission and linkage for newly diagnosed individuals key HIV treatment activities include linkage to care early antiretroviral therapy initiation retention differentiated service delivery models advanced HIV disease diagnosis and management treatment continuity and reengagement in care expected outcomes include increased access to HIV testing among KPS and index case partners an improved public health response to active transmission hotspots consistently high linkage to treatment continued scale up of pre exposure prophylaxis increased early treatment initiation retention and adherence improved access to viral load testing and sustained viral suppression