Women's Positive Empowerment Initiative LIMITED

Women's Positive Empowerment Initiative LIMITED is a non-profit organization operating as a federal grant recipient, with a sparse footprint comprising one prime federal grant award and two sub-awards across federal health and State Department programs focused on HIV prevention and epidemic control in Uganda.

The vendor's prime grant work centers on HIV prevention among vulnerable populations. In March 2022, the Department of State Bureau of African Affairs awarded Women's Positive Empowerment Initiative LIMITED a project grant to reduce HIV incidence among female sex workers through improved uptake of HIV testing, linkage, and referral services. That award, which ran through February 2023, represents the organization's sole prime federal grant engagement in the available award history.

The majority of Women's Positive Empowerment Initiative LIMITED's federal footprint derives from sub-grant awards. The vendor acts as a sub-recipient under The Infectious Diseases Institute LIMITED on two federal grants focused on HIV and tuberculosis epidemic control in Uganda. The first, awarded in January 2024, supports implementation of the Mechanism for Achieving and Sustaining HIV and TB Epidemic Control in Wakiso and Masaka Regions of Uganda through scale-up of evidence-based interventions toward UNAIDS 95:95:95 targets. A second sub-award, issued in September 2025, funds strengthening of civil society organizations' capacity and coordination for accelerated HIV epidemic control in Uganda under PEPFAR-supported comprehensive HIV/AIDS prevention and treatment programming.

Total dollars obligated across all three awards sum to $109 thousand. The Department of Health and Human Services Centers for Disease Control and Prevention and the Department of State Bureau of African Affairs together account for 100% of the vendor's award count, with CDC and State accounting for two and one awards respectively. Activity remains episodic — one award per year in 2022, 2024, and 2025 — with no indication of contract vehicle seats, multiple-award positions, or full-and-open competition.