The Government of Tanzania (GoT) and the President’s Emergency Plan for AIDS Relief (PEPFAR) are committed to achieving sustainable HIV and tuberculosis (TB) epidemic control through prioritizing the acquisition, management and analysis of timely, accurate, complete, consistent and precise data using secure, scalable, and sustainable digital health information systems (HIS).

Through this Notice of Funding Opportunity (NOFO), the recipient will build the Ministry of Health and Child Care’s (MOHCC) capacity at the national, provincial, and district levels to collect key strategic information (SI) required to measure progress towards achieving epidemic control and generate a strong evidence base for informed program decision-making in Zimbabwe. The recipient will strengthen monitoring and evaluation (M&E) units at national, provincial, and district levels to monitor HIV/AIDS, tuberculosis (TB), and related services.

Uganda has strengthened its laboratory network for specimen transportation, testing and implementation of International Standards Organization (ISO) series of Quality Management Systems (QMS); with 13 laboratories and 75 Laboratory hubs attaining international accreditation and being beyond the minimal national level of quality, respectively. The NOFO will build on these gains to achieve a resilient, sustainable National Health Laboratory System to support the National HIV/AIDS Care and Treatment program at all health care levels.

The goal of the NOFO is to provide support to the South African National Department of Health (NDoH) and other Government National Departments, Provincial Departments of Health (PDoH), District Health Teams, and CDC-funded District Support Partners (DSPs) to integrate primary mental health (MH) service provision and improved referral for complex MH disorders into the current HIV/TB package of services in order to improve health outcomes amongst people living with HIV (PLHIV).