This $4,070,000 Cooperative Agreement award from the U.S. Agency for International Development (USAID) under the USAID Foreign Assistance for Programs Overseas (CFDA 98.001) program is intended to strengthen Vietnam's capacity at the subnational levels to effectively prevent, detect, and respond to epidemic-prone emerging infectious diseases through One Health approaches. The award, which runs from September 5, 2024 to September 4, 2029, is being implemented by the global health nonprofit...
The Department of State Bureau of East Asian and Pacific Affairs awarded a $200,000 project grant to the Ho Chi Minh City HIV/AIDS Association to implement a community-led monitoring project in the President's Emergency Plan for AIDS Relief (PEFPAR) program in Ho Chi Minh City Metro Region, Vietnam from April 2023 through January 2024. The objective of this 10-month project is to enable the recipient to provide support services for the U.S. Global AIDS Coordinator's PEFPAR Programs (CFDA...
The Department of State Bureau of East Asian and Pacific Affairs awarded a $200,000 project grant to the Ho Chi Minh City HIV/AIDS Association to implement a community-led monitoring project in the President's Emergency Plan for AIDS Relief (PEFPAR) program in Ho Chi Minh City metro region, Vietnam from March 28, 2022 to January 31, 2023. The grant funding will support the recipient's work on community-led monitoring activities under the U.S. President's Emergency Plan for AIDS Relief Programs...
This Project Grant award from the National Science Foundation's Office of International Science and Engineering (CFDA 47.079) provides $449,987 to train U.S. students in field-based genomic methods, data analysis, and science communication related to monitoring bat-borne zoonotic pathogens in Vietnam. The 3-year program, which runs from July 2025 to June 2028, will host up to 8 U.S. students per year at the Center for Biodiversity and Endangered Species in Ho Chi Minh City. Students will conduct...
This $130,000 project grant from the Department of State Bureau of East Asian and Pacific Affairs will enable Action Center For People Living With HIV to implement a community-led monitoring project in Vietnam's Northern Economic Zone from April 2023 through January 2024. The funding supports the U.S. President's Emergency Plan for AIDS Relief Programs (PEPFAR), which provides assistance to combat HIV/AIDS globally through coordination and oversight by the Office of the U.S. Global AIDS...
This Cooperative Agreement award from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) under CFDA 93.283 - CDC Investigations and Technical Assistance program provides $8,536,000.00 in funding to the African Field Epidemiology Network LTD (AFENET) to implement the "REINFORCING IMMUNIZATION SYSTEMS FOR CONSEQUENTIAL GEOGRAPHIES (RISE4CGS) IN DRC, ETHIOPIA AND NIGERIA" project. The project aims to strengthen immunization systems, epidemiological surveillance, laboratory capacity, and...
The National Science Foundation's Biological Sciences (CFDA 47.074) Federal Grant Program has awarded a $1,487,500 Cooperative Agreement to the University of California, Davis to establish the Center for Insights into the Pre-Emergence Phase of Pandemics (CI3P). This multi-year project aims to develop innovative scientific and technological solutions to detect signals of pathogens circulating in natural reservoirs and provide insights into how pandemic threats emerge. The key objectives include:...
This Project Grant award from the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases (NIAID) under the Allergy and Infectious Diseases Research program (CFDA 93.855) provides $183,541 over 5 years to support an investigation of within-household transmission of influenza in low-resource settings. The research, led by a principal investigator at Yale University, aims to quantify influenza spread within households and develop a model to evaluate the effectiveness of interventions like...
The U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) awarded a $6,000,000 Cooperative Agreement to the National Health Laboratory Service (NHLS) in South Africa under CFDA Program 93.318, "Protecting and Improving Health Globally: Building and Strengthening Public Health Impact, Systems, Capacity and Security." The 5-year award, effective September 1, 2024, supports NHLS's collaborative research on influenza and other respiratory pathogens in South Africa. Key activities include...
This federal Cooperative Agreement award of $1,234,300.00 from the National Center for Emerging and Zoonotic Infectious Diseases (a division of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention) supports the Sexually Transmitted Infection Surveillance Network (SSUN) project under the Sexually Transmitted Diseases (STD) Prevention and Control Grants program (CFDA 93.977). The project aims to expand STI surveillance capabilities in California, which has the largest burden of bacterial sexually...