This Funding Opportunity Announcement (FOA) invites research projects to improve understanding of the causes of high priority diseases in the United States and reducing/eliminating health disparities. Research is encouraged in the following high priority diseases within the scientific mission areas of the NIDDK: diabetes; obesity; nutrition-related disorders; hepatitis C; gallbladder disease; H.

PEPFAR is committed to reducing new HIV infections worldwide by implementing evidence-based interventions that address risk at the individual, relationship, and community level. Adolescent girls and young women (AGYW) ages 15 to 24 years in sub-Saharan Africa are unique with respect to both their high burden of HIV disease and their extensive array of potential risk factors at the biological, behavioral, interpersonal, social, and structural levels.

This FOA will support biphasic (i.e., two stage, multi-method) research projects that inform community response and promote comprehensive, integrated approaches to prevent HIV and hepatitis C virus (HCV) infection, along with associated comorbidities such as hepatitis B virus (HBV) infection and sexually transmitted diseases (STDs), among people who inject drugs (PWID) in rural US communities. Opioid injection and its consequences (e.g., HIV, HCV, HBV, STDs and overdose) are the primary foci here.

This Funding Opportunity Announcement (FOA) invites applications for Planning Grants (R34) that will strengthen the HIV oral pre-exposure prophylaxis (PrEP) care continuum by developing and pilot testing interventions to improve PrEP care engagement and retention among individuals at substantial risk for HIV infection, as well as interventions to support PrEP medication adherence and persistence as indicated.

This initiative aims to: (1) enhance our understanding of the multi-level factors that influence HIV prevention strategy use among adolescent girls and young women (AGYW) in sub-Saharan Africa and (2) develop and test novel interventions to address these factors and enhance the uptake and adherence to HIV prevention strategies among AGYW in sub-Saharan Africa.

Grantee will work at Ukrainian priority regional AIDS Centers and antiretroviral (ARV) treatment sites to provide technical assistance on implementation of test and treat guidelines and on innovative service delivery models for resource optimization. Grantee will also work at national level to provide input into development of national guidelines and policy on HIV testing, care and treatment.

The purpose of this funding opportunity announcement (FOA) is to provide quality Community Based HIV Testing & Counselling (CBHTC) services in the five PEPFAR scale up districts (Maseru, Berea, Leribe, Mafeteng & Mohale’s Hoek) of Lesotho using targeted community-based approaches to identify HIV-positive individuals and link them to treatment services.

The goal of this funding opportunity announcement (FOA) is to institutionalize sustainable national health, laboratory and strategic information systems by supporting the provision of technical assistance and strategic planning to the Rwanda Ministry of Health and other partnering institutions. To strengthen national systems for a comprehensive HIV response, the awardee will leverage current efforts and implement new activities that will have sustainable effects within the health system focusing on high priority geographical, programmatic and staffing areas.

This FOA will focus on providing critical human resources through recruitment and provision of salary support to qualified health workers, for the Ministry of Health (MOH) to meet PEPFAR objectives and achieve 90:90:90 goals by 2020 and beyond. The salary support would prioritize filling the gap before graduates get on payroll and would include hardship allowance for health professionals and other allowances as approved by government. The successful applicant will work closely with MOH to ensure maximum alignment with government processes and regulations.

The purpose of this Funding Opportunity Announcement (FOA) is to provide technical support to Ethiopia’s national HIV/AIDS/STI/TB monitoring systems, build surveillance for public health emergency response, and enhance the health workforce capacity.