Assistance program
Health Systems Strengthening and HIV/AIDS Prevention, Care and Treatment under the President's Emergency Plan for AIDS Relief
$278.0 Million committed in FY2018–FY2026
- Agency
- Health Resources and Services Administration, Health and Human Services, Department of
- Assistance
- Cooperative Agreements
- CFDA number
- 93.266
- What it does
- Fund human resources for health, quality improvement and other health system strengthening activities in countries supported through the President’s Emergency Plan for AIDS Relief (PEPFAR). Objectives include: (1) Training and technical assistance to build and strengthen care programs and health systems, so that affected countries can maintain programs over time and deliver quality HIV/AIDS care; build infrastructure such as clinic and community-led monitoring, health information systems, and medical and nursing education. (2) Enhance models of medical, nursing and midwifery education. (3) Develop partnerships between experts in the U.S. and people and institutions overseas to build skills and prepare host countries so that they may better manage their own programs over the long term, (4) Support PEPFAR’s sustainability goals including by transferring HRSA expertise and best practices.?? ? Health Systems Strengthening Programs funded through cooperative agreements: (1) Leveraging health service equity approaches for sustainable HIV epidemic control; (2) Global Reach II; (3) Quality Improvement Solutions for Sustained Epidemic Control; (4) Capacity Building for Sustainable HIV Services. ? Non-Competing Continuations planned for FY25/26 Leveraging health service equity approaches for sustainable HIV epidemic control (HSEA): $8,000,000? Develop and implement strategies to address social determinants and health inequalities found within the healthcare system to improve the delivery of quality HIV/AIDS services in Malawi Zambia and potentially in other identified PEPFAR-supported countries, prioritizing the HBCU Global Health Consortium Initiative?? Global Reach II (GRII): $3,750,948 HIV epidemic control through a focus on treatment in regional and national programs including health workforce development and mental health services.? Quality Improvement Solutions for Sustained Epidemic Control Project (QISSEC): $2,684,125? Quality improvements across the HIV care continuum?? Capacity Building for Sustainable HIV Services – Global (CBP): $11,563,395? Enhances overall capacity strengthening and advances program sustainability in a PEPFAR countries through HIV/AIDS training centers to highlight new and initial and innovative interventions to improve patient outcomes, including integrated services.? Competing planned for FY25. Network of local institutions and partners to accompany PEPFAR countries in reaching and maintaining HIV epidemic control and creating a sustainable national HIV response ($TBD) Supporting PEPFAR’s strategic goals including to end HIV as a public health threat by 2030 and to have most of the HIV programming administered by governments and local partners, with effective community involvement, and accountability.