Expanding Coverage and Improving the Quality of Facility and Community Based Prevention of Mother to Child Transmission of HIV Programs in Two Regions of Cameroon under the President s Emergency Plan for AIDS Relief (PEPFAR) | Apply Online

Opportunity Summary:

This CDC PEPFAR funding opportunity (CDC RFA GH11-1153) focuses on expanding coverage and improving the quality of prevention of mother-to-child transmission of HIV (PMTCT) services in Cameroon, with an emphasis on both facility-based and community-based delivery. The overall goal is to reduce HIV-related maternal and child mortality by ensuring that comprehensive PMTCT services are widely available and effectively used within Cameroon s national maternal and child health (MCH) and reproductive health system. The opportunity is structured as a cooperative agreement, which typically means the CDC expects to have substantial involvement in implementation and oversight rather than simply providing a grant with minimal federal engagement.

The core programmatic aim is to dramatically increase PMTCT reach and uptake, especially in the Southwest Region of Cameroon, where the program targets an expansion from roughly 35 percent to 90 percent coverage. In addition to the Southwest, applicants are expected to significantly improve PMTCT uptake in one additional region of Cameroon. A key feature of the approach is integration: PMTCT activities should be embedded into existing antenatal care (ANC) services at health facilities so that pregnant women encounter HIV prevention, testing, and treatment as a routine part of maternal health care, not as a separate or hard-to-access service. Alongside facility integration, the program also calls for community-based PMTCT activities that help generate demand, reduce loss to follow-up, and ensure mothers and infants remain connected to care over time.

A major priority is strengthening the linkage between health facilities and communities so services work as a connected system rather than as isolated pieces. The announcement emphasizes improving PMTCT utilization and follow-up for the mother infant pair, meaning the program should not end at the mother s test result or delivery visit. Instead, it should support continued engagement across pregnancy, delivery, postpartum care, and infant follow-up. Strong referral networks and case-finding or follow-up mechanisms are expected to connect HIV-positive pregnant women to comprehensive HIV care and treatment services and to ensure HIV-exposed infants receive appropriate testing, prophylaxis, and clinical monitoring. In practice, this implies building or reinforcing referral pathways, patient tracking, counseling support, and coordination between ANC clinics, maternity wards, pediatric services, laboratories, and community outreach workers.

The solicitation outlines a set of required or strongly expected service components. These include HIV testing and counseling in ANC settings so pregnant women can learn their HIV status early and receive immediate guidance and services. It also includes early infant diagnosis (EID), which is critical because HIV in infants cannot be reliably diagnosed early with standard antibody tests and requires specialized testing approaches. Another central activity is ensuring access to antiretroviral drugs (ARVs) for HIV-positive mothers and for exposed infants, aligning with PMTCT protocols that reduce transmission risk during pregnancy, labor, delivery, and breastfeeding, while also supporting maternal health. PMTCT education is also explicitly named, signaling the importance of clear, repeated messaging for mothers, families, and communities about prevention steps, adherence, safe infant feeding guidance consistent with national policy, and the importance of follow-up. Finally, the program expects applicants to establish and strengthen linkages to comprehensive care and treatment services for HIV-positive mothers and their children, reinforcing a continuum of care rather than a one-time intervention.

From a funding and administrative standpoint, the opportunity is listed under the CFDA number 93.067 (Global AIDS) with an estimated total funding amount of 12,500,000 and an award ceiling of 1,500,000 per award. The expected number of awards is 2, and there is no cost sharing or matching requirement. The original posting date is February 24, 2011, with an original closing date of April 25, 2011, and a later current closing date listed as May 10, 2013, with an archive date of May 11, 2013. Even though the listing is archived, the details describe the intent, scope, and required activities that characterized the competition while it was active.

Eligibility is broad and includes many organizational types capable of implementing public health programs at scale. Eligible applicants include nonprofits with or without 501(c)(3) status, for-profit organizations (including small businesses and specifically small, minority, and women-owned businesses), universities and colleges, research institutions, hospitals, community-based organizations, faith-based organizations, U.S. state and local governments or their bona fide agents, federally or state recognized American Indian/Alaska Native tribal governments, and non-U.S. entities. If an organization applies as a bona fide agent of a state or local government, it must provide documentation (a letter from the relevant government) confirming that status as part of the application package.

In practical terms, a competitive application under this announcement would be expected to show how the applicant will expand PMTCT service availability across targeted geographies, improve the quality and consistency of PMTCT service delivery in ANC and related settings, and build community-to-facility systems that keep women and infants engaged through testing, ARV initiation and adherence, delivery planning, postpartum follow-up, infant prophylaxis, EID, and linkage into ongoing HIV care. The emphasis on both scale (expanding coverage) and performance (improving uptake and follow-up) suggests CDC was looking for implementers that could combine service delivery support, training and mentoring, community mobilization, and strong referral and tracking systems to produce measurable improvements in PMTCT outcomes.

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