Strengthening Human Resource and Institutional Capacity for Delivery of Quality HIV/AIDS, Sexually Transmitted Infection (STI) and Tuberculosis (TB) Services in Local Universities and Surrounding Catchment Areas in Eastern Ethiopia as Part of the Pre | CDC RFA GH12 122105CONT17

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This funding opportunity is a continuation cooperative agreement from the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), Center for Global Health, focused on Eastern Ethiopia. The project’s core purpose is to strengthen both human resources and institutional capacity so that local universities and the surrounding communities they serve can deliver higher-quality, more reliable services for HIV/AIDS, sexually transmitted infections (STIs), and tuberculosis (TB). It sits under the Presidents Emergency Plan for AIDS Relief (PEPFAR), which signals a strong emphasis on improving HIV-related outcomes while also integrating closely linked services like STI and TB prevention, diagnosis, and treatment. In practical terms, the opportunity is aimed at building durable systems and workforce capability in and around university settings, recognizing that universities can function as major service delivery hubs as well as training centers that influence the wider health system.

The mechanism is a cooperative agreement, meaning CDC is expected to have substantial involvement during implementation rather than acting only as a funder. Cooperative agreements typically include ongoing technical collaboration, shared planning, and performance monitoring between the awardee and CDC. The opportunity category is explicitly continuation funding, which generally indicates that the award is intended to support and extend an existing program or previously funded activities rather than launch a brand-new initiative from scratch. The listing also shows an expected number of awards of one, reinforcing that the grant is structured to support a single implementing partner, often the incumbent organization already operating the program under earlier funding.

The program is categorized under the health funding activity area and is associated with CFDA number 93.067, which corresponds to CDC-related global health assistance activities. The eligible applicant field is listed as “Others,” with clarification referenced in an additional eligibility text field (not included in the excerpt). That phrasing commonly means eligibility may be limited or specialized, such as restricted to a particular type of institution, an existing partner, or entities that meet specific criteria spelled out elsewhere in the full announcement. The timeline in the source data indicates the opportunity was created on October 6, 2016, with an original closing date of December 8, 2016, which frames it as a time-bound continuation action during that period.

Although the excerpt does not provide a detailed workplan, the title and description make the intended outcomes fairly clear: improving the capacity of universities and nearby catchment areas to deliver quality HIV, STI, and TB services through strengthened staffing, training, supervision, and institutional systems. This often includes upgrading clinical and public health competencies among providers, reinforcing referral networks, improving quality assurance and supportive supervision, strengthening laboratory and diagnostic linkages where relevant, and building administrative and management systems that sustain service delivery. Because the setting is “local universities and surrounding catchment areas,” the project likely targets both campus populations and the communities that the university-linked facilities serve, which can be especially important for reaching young adults and other groups connected to university environments.

The award ceiling is listed as 0 in the provided data, which usually reflects that the ceiling amount was not specified in this summary record or is determined through other documentation, negotiations, or continuation budget processes rather than stated as a fixed maximum in the public synopsis. Taken together, the opportunity can be understood as a CDC/PEPFAR-supported continuation project designed to consolidate and expand earlier investments in Eastern Ethiopia by strengthening workforce skills and institutional systems so that HIV/AIDS, STI, and TB services are delivered more consistently and at higher quality within university-based platforms and their broader service catchments.

• The Department of Health and Human Services, Centers for Disease Control - CGH in the health sector is offering a public funding opportunity titled "Strengthening Human Resource and Institutional Capacity for Delivery of Quality HIV/AIDS, Sexually Transmitted Infection (STI) and Tuberculosis (TB) Services in Local Universities and Surrounding Catchment Areas in Eastern Ethiopia as Part of the Pre" and is now available to receive applicants.
• Interested and eligible applicants and submit their applications by referencing the CFDA number(s): 93.067.
• This funding opportunity was created on Oct 06, 2016.
• Applicants must submit their applications by Dec 08, 2016. (Agency may still review applications by suitable applicants for the remaining/unused allocated funding in 2026.)
• The number of recipients for this funding is limited to 1 candidate(s).
• Eligible applicants include: Others (see text field entitled Additional Information on Eligibility for clarification).

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