Opportunity Information: Apply for CDC RFA GH15 152003CONT17
This funding opportunity is a continuation cooperative agreement issued by the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), through its Center for Global Health, and it sits under the President's Emergency Plan for AIDS Relief (PEPFAR). The project is focused on the Dominican Republic and is designed to strengthen the Ministry of Health's ability to prevent and control HIV and other sexually transmitted infections (STIs) by improving program quality, surveillance, and service delivery for groups most affected by the epidemic. Because it is structured as a cooperative agreement rather than a standard grant, CDC is signaling that it expects to have substantial involvement in the work, typically through close technical collaboration, shared planning, performance monitoring, and ongoing program guidance to help achieve PEPFAR targets and quality standards.
The technical focus is threefold. First, it emphasizes improving prevention of mother-to-child transmission (PMTCT) services. In practice, this generally means strengthening the full PMTCT cascade: identifying pregnant women living with HIV early through strong antenatal testing strategies, ensuring immediate and sustained antiretroviral therapy (ART) for those who test positive, improving retention in care through pregnancy and breastfeeding, ensuring safe delivery practices aligned with national guidelines, and ensuring timely infant prophylaxis and early infant diagnosis. It also usually includes improving the linkages between maternal and child health services and HIV services so that women do not fall out of care due to fragmented systems, and reinforcing follow-up systems so HIV-exposed infants receive the recommended testing and clinical monitoring.
Second, the opportunity targets the quality of HIV treatment more broadly. That typically involves strengthening clinical and program systems that improve outcomes along the HIV care continuum, including prompt linkage to care after diagnosis, rapid ART initiation, adherence support, viral load monitoring, and retention strategies that reduce loss to follow-up. The word "quality" is important: it implies a focus not just on expanding access, but on improving how well services are delivered, how consistently guidelines are followed, and how reliably programs achieve viral suppression. Quality improvement approaches in these settings often include routine performance reviews, mentorship and supportive supervision for clinicians and program staff, improved data use for decision-making, and targeted interventions for facilities or populations with weaker outcomes.
Third, the announcement highlights strengthening STI surveillance. This points to improving the capacity to detect, track, and respond to STI trends in a way that supports HIV prevention and treatment planning. Stronger STI surveillance can involve improving case reporting systems, laboratory capacity where applicable, sentinel surveillance, better integration of STI indicators into national health information systems, and improved analysis and dissemination of surveillance findings so they drive policy and program decisions. Because STIs and HIV are epidemiologically linked, better STI surveillance helps identify transmission hotspots and risk networks, and it can guide prevention strategies and resource allocation.
A major cross-cutting element is increasing capacity to address the needs of key populations. In the PEPFAR context, "key populations" generally refers to groups that bear a disproportionate burden of HIV risk and face barriers to services due to stigma, discrimination, and structural obstacles. Capacity building in this area often includes training health workers to provide non-discriminatory, confidential, and culturally competent services; strengthening referral networks and community linkages; improving service delivery models that reduce access barriers; and helping the Ministry of Health and partners use data to better characterize the epidemic among these groups. It can also include improving policies and procedures that protect confidentiality and patient rights, since those are central to whether key populations will trust and use public sector services.
From an administrative standpoint, the opportunity is identified as CDC RFA GH15-152003CONT17 and is categorized as continuation funding, meaning it is intended to extend or continue an existing effort rather than launch an entirely new program. The funding instrument is a cooperative agreement, and the activity category is health. The CFDA number is 93.067, which corresponds to CDC global HIV and TB-related assistance. The posting shows an expected number of awards of 10, suggesting that multiple partners or implementing entities could be funded to carry out different pieces of the overall strategy or to operate in different geographic areas or technical domains in alignment with the national program.
The eligibility line indicates "Others (see text field entitled Additional Information on Eligibility for clarification)," which signals that eligibility is defined in more detail in the full announcement rather than being limited to a simple category like states, universities, or nonprofits. In practice, CDC continuation cooperative agreements often prioritize existing recipients or organizations already engaged in the relevant PEPFAR country portfolio, but the definitive eligibility requirements would be contained in the full notice. Key dates provided include a creation date of October 16, 2016 and an original closing date of December 20, 2016, indicating the window during which applications or continuation submissions were expected.
Finally, the award ceiling is listed as 0, which typically means the maximum award amount is not specified in the summary fields and would either be described elsewhere in the full funding opportunity announcement or determined by available appropriations and negotiated workplans and budgets. Overall, the opportunity is best understood as a CDC-PEPFAR-supported effort to help the Dominican Republic Ministry of Health strengthen PMTCT performance, improve HIV treatment quality and outcomes, enhance STI surveillance systems, and build sustainable capacity to reach and serve key populations more effectively, using a collaborative model where CDC provides ongoing technical engagement to support measurable public health impact.Apply for CDC RFA GH15 152003CONT17
- The Department of Health and Human Services, Centers for Disease Control - CGH in the health sector is offering a public funding opportunity titled "Improving PMTCT and Quality of HIV Treatment and STI Surveillance and Increasing Capacity to address needs for key populations in the Dominican Republic Ministry of Health under the President’s Emergency Plan for AIDS Relief (PEPFAR)" 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 16, 2016.
- Applicants must submit their applications by Dec 20, 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 10 candidate(s).
- Eligible applicants include: Others (see text field entitled Additional Information on Eligibility for clarification).
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