CDC-RFA-JG-26-0143 Enhancing sustainable health information and laboratory systems and networks for quality detection, management, and monitoring to end HIV and TB as public health threats in India

The Award Ceiling for Year 1 is 0 (none). CDC anticipates an Approximate Total Fiscal Year Funding amount of $6,000,000 for Year 1, subject to the availability of funds.CDC invites proposals to support India"s Ministry of Health and Family Welfare (MOHFW), National AIDS Control Organization (NACO), and related institutions to strengthen health systems and laboratory networks for HIV, TB, and other public health concerns. It aligns with the America First Global Health Strategy (AFGHS) to bolster health systems to prevent the global spread of infectious disease.You should enhance innovative, cost-effective, and quality-assured laboratory services for HIV, TB, and related health programs by focusing on early detection, service delivery, and monitoring in priority regions. Strategic support will foster ownership, integrate broader health systems, and align with U.S. global health priorities.Activities include:Optimizing health information and laboratory networks for HIV, TB, and co-infections to enhance access, early detection, and boost capacity for other public health concerns.Enhancing surveillance of infectious disease threats by integrating national data systems for coordinated public health action.Reinforcing biosafety, biosecurity, and laboratory quality systems.Adopting innovative technologies to meet disease containment goals.Supporting molecular diagnostics and epidemiology to track transmission networks and drug resistance for infectious diseases, focusing on HIV and co-infections.Strengthening the health workforce to collect, analyze, and use data to improve patient care, feedback systems, and epidemic trend monitoring.

The Award Ceiling for Year 1 is 0 (none). CDC anticipates an Approximate Total Fiscal Year Funding amount of $10,000,000 for Year 1, subject to the availability of funds.This NOFO aims to help the Public Health Center (PHC) of the Ministry of Health (MOH) enhance life-saving assistance for HIV and associated prevalent health conditions. This should be accomplished with targeted HIV testing, prevention, and treatment activities amid ongoing instability.The objectives of this NOFO include:Working to ensure that targeted HIV testing, treatment, retention, and prevention services are widely available for people who are at higher risk for HIV. Services should be provided in community settings using social network strategies (SNS). Activities include:Targeted community-based case finding.Immediate linkage to available treatment.Retention support.Management of advanced HIV disease and HIV/TB co-infection.Improving the availability of HIV services by mobile HIV testing, treatment, and prevention. You should use targeted mobile HIV case finding, treatment, retention, and prevention services. Activities include:Streamlining immediate linkage to treatment.Strengthening ongoing adherence support.Improving the availability and quality of HIV services at medical facilities by implementing differentiated service delivery (DSD) models. Activities include enhancing patients" retention, adherence, and access to HIV services at the facility level.Enhancing essential, targeted HIV prevention service provision for people at higher risk for HIV, focusing on availability, quality, coverage and timely initiation.

Activities under this NOFO will focus on protecting and improving public health globally by: 1) strengthening public health laboratory systems; 2) improving public health laboratory workforce; 3) improving bio risk management; 4) reinforcing emergency laboratory preparedness in alignment with 7-1-7 outbreak response paradigm; 5) enhancing laboratory quality management systems and; 6) enhancing diagnostic capacity via rapid tests for low resource settings and genomic sequencing for pathogens of pandemic potential. Additionally, laboratory recipients previously funded under CDC-RFA-GH20-2109 may apply to expand efforts in additional countries with special consideration given to those countries.