Strengthening Laboratory Capacity and Quality for HIV Diagnosis, Care, Treatment, and Monitoring in Malawi under the President's Emergency Plan for AIDS Relief (PEPFAR)
Closed Posted
- Opportunity number
- CDC-RFA-GH-24-0097
- Agency
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Centers for Disease Control and Prevention
Department of Health and Human Services
- Applications due
- Award size
- Not on record
Opportunity facts
- Assistance listings
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- 93.067 Global AIDS
- Funding instrument
- Cooperative Agreement
- Category
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- Health
- Eligible applicants
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- Unrestricted
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About this opportunity
This notice of funding opportunity requests applications to strengthen laboratory capacity and quality for HIV diagnosis, care, treatment, and monitoring in Malawi under PEPFAR. The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention seeks to award approximately $8.375 million over five years to improve and sustain achievements in Malawi's national laboratory systems through priorities such as scaling up patient-centered approaches to address low viral load coverage, optimizing diagnostic networks, enhancing biosafety and waste management, obtaining laboratory accreditations, expanding HIV rapid testing quality improvement activities, and extending external quality assessment programs to additional test parameters. Eligible applicants include all organizations and applications are due February 22, 2024.
The anticipated total annual award amount is $8.375 million for a one year budget period to one or two recipients. The total period of performance will be five years. The work will be performed in Malawi to strengthen the country's national laboratory systems through the Malawi Ministry of Health and ensure universal access to diagnostics while addressing public health system gaps.
Synopsis
The Award Ceiling for Year 1 is 0 (none). CDC anticipates an Approximate Total Fiscal Year Funding amount of $8,375,000 for Year 1, subject to the availability of funds.As Malawi strives to reach HIV epidemic control, there is a need to improve and sustain achievements in the national laboratory systems. Technical assistance (TA) to the Ministry of Health (MOH) will ensure universal diagnostics access and address public health system gaps. For sustainability, MOH's public health laboratory capabilities will be strengthened for governance and ownership, National Reference Laboratories (NRL) capacity will be built for surveillance and outbreak responses, and the HIV laboratory program will be integrated into broader disease areas. Priorities include scaling up patient-centered approaches to identify and address challenges of low viral load coverage (VLC) and suppression in different age groups and populations, point of care testing (POCT) laboratories for integrated multi-disease tests, and rapid testing continuous quality improvement (RTCQI) to achieve national certification. Other priorities include improving access for advanced HIV disease (AHD) and pre-exposure prophylaxis (PrEP) tests, conducting regular diagnostic network optimization to ensure efficiencies and testing accessibility, increasing utilization of high throughput instruments in conventional molecular laboratories to improve VLC, improving biosafety and waste management, preparing additional laboratories for International Organization for Standardization (ISO) accreditations, and extending the external quality assessment (EQA) program to multiple testing parameters.
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