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Document Type:
Grants Notice
Funding Opportunity Number:
CDC-RFA-GH13-1333
Opportunity Category:
Discretionary
Posted Date:
Jan 23, 2013
Creation Date:
Jan 23, 2013
Original Closing Date for Applications:
Apr 11, 2013
Current Closing Date for Applications:
Apr 11, 2013
Archive Date:
May 11, 2013
Funding Instrument Type:
Cooperative Agreement
Category of Funding Activity:
Health
Category Explanation:
Expected Number of Awards:
1
Estimated Total Program Funding:
$12,500,000
Award Ceiling:
$2,500,000
Award Floor:
$0
CFDA Number(s):
93.067
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Global AIDS
Cost Sharing or Matching Requirement:
No
Eligible Applicants
Others (see text field entitled "Additional Information on Eligibility" for clarification)
Additional Information on Eligibility:
The Ministry of Health (MOH) is mandated to coordinate, develop policies and guidelines for the health-sector response to the HIV epidemic in Uganda and oversees laboratory services at the national and regional referral levels while the Ministry of Local Government administers those at the district and health center levels. Through its laboratory technical advisory (LTAC) committee, comprised of MOH personnel and multi-sectorial representatives and working through its technical arm, the Central Public Health Laboratory (CPHL), the MOH is responsible for all the laboratory diagnostic functions for the Government of Uganda. The MOH will provide leadership and technical assistance in assuring highly functional and operational national health laboratory services while assuring sustainability and quality systems integration for the support of the HIV/AIDS prevention, care and treatment programs.
Agency Name
Centers for Disease Control and Prevention
Description
The purpose of this announcement is to oversee and continue with the strengthening of the National health laboratory services that will: (1) provide leadership in HIV/AIDS related laboratory training; and (2) provide technical assistance and leadership in assuring highly functional and operational testing systems, and assuring quality systems integration, in building the capacity of health laboratories to support HIV/AIDS prevention, care and treatment in Uganda
This funding opportunity is intended to allow the continuation of existing activities and expansion to provide comprehensive HIV/AIDS activities and services including all key areas supported by the US President’s Emergency Program for AIDS Relief (PEPFAR). These activities were initiated under cooperative agreement number
PS002724: CDC-RFA-PS10-102603. The purpose of this announcement is to build an indigenous, sustainable national health laboratory system to support the National HIV/AIDS Care and Treatment Plan at all health care levels. A significant component of this announcement is for the establishment of the National Health Laboratory Services (NHLS), a semi-autonomous organization under the MOH which will provide leadership and serve as a focal point for training on HIV/AIDS, tuberculosis, opportunistic infections, malaria, and other emerging diseases of public health importance. The NHLS will provide technical assistance and leadership to laboratories nationally for quality systems implementation and integration, thus assuring functional and operational testing systems, serve as the primary resource for receiving information on international standards and guidelines for quality systems, provide technical assistance to the national laboratory network for management and implementation of laboratory information management systems, provide technical assistance and testing for national HIV-related surveillance activities and HIV early infant diagnosis.
