Supporting Health Worker Staffing in the Republic of South Africa under the President s Emergency Plan for AIDS Relief (PEPFAR) | Apply Online

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Supporting Health Worker Staffing in the Republic of South Africa under the President's Emergency Plan for AIDS Relief (PEPFAR) is a Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) cooperative agreement created to strengthen the health workforce capacity needed to deliver HIV prevention, care, and treatment services across South Africa. The opportunity is built around a central challenge: South Africa carries the worlds highest combined burden of HIV and tuberculosis (TB), yet the public health system does not have enough trained personnel to meet the scale of need. The program is designed to help ensure that health care facilities at local, regional, and national levels have adequate staffing to provide quality services, especially for HIV and the closely linked TB epidemic.

The funding rationale is driven by the size and urgency of the epidemics described in the announcement. The opportunity notes an estimated 5.7 million people living with HIV in South Africa and a rising TB incidence exceeding 1,000 cases per 100,000 population per year. Those figures translate into a very large volume of patients who must be tested, linked to care, started on treatment, monitored over time, and supported to remain in care. Because TB is a major cause of illness and death among people with HIV, the workforce demands are compounded: health facilities need enough clinical and support staff to screen for TB, diagnose and treat TB, manage co-infections, and maintain infection control and patient follow-up. The grant is therefore focused less on small pilot activities and more on practical staffing support that can sustain day-to-day service delivery at scale.

Administratively, this is a discretionary funding opportunity using a Cooperative Agreement mechanism, which typically means the CDC expects to be substantially involved in the program with the awardee. The funding opportunity number is CDC-RFA-GH11-1110, and the activity category is Health under CFDA 93.067 (Global AIDS). The posting date was February 11, 2011, with an application closing date of April 12, 2011, and the opportunity was later archived on May 12, 2011. The estimated total funding amount listed is $40,000,000, and the announcement anticipated a single award (Expected Awards: 1). No cost sharing or matching requirement was indicated. The award ceiling and floor fields are listed as 0, which often reflects that specific award size details are addressed in the full announcement rather than in the summary fields.

Eligibility is broad and includes many types of organizations that could plausibly support health staffing and implementation at national scale. Eligible applicants include nonprofit organizations with or without 501(c)(3) status (other than institutions of higher education), for-profit organizations (including small businesses and small, minority-, and women-owned businesses), universities, colleges, research institutions, hospitals, community-based organizations, and faith-based organizations. Governmental entities are also eligible, including state and local governments or their bona fide agents, as well as federally or state-recognized American Indian/Alaska Native tribal governments. The eligibility list also explicitly includes non-U.S. (non-domestic) entities, which fits the South Africa focus. For applicants applying as a bona fide agent of a state or local government, the notice specifies that documentation is required in the form of a letter from the relevant government confirming that status, submitted with other attachment forms through Grants.gov.

In practical terms, the opportunity targets workforce gaps that prevent facilities from delivering consistent, high-quality HIV and TB-related services. While the short description does not enumerate specific job categories, the intent is clearly to bolster the human resources needed to identify patients, provide clinical care, initiate and maintain treatment, and support continuity of care within South Africas public medical system. The focus on staffing at multiple levels (local, regional, national) suggests an expectation that award activities would support both service delivery sites and the broader systems that manage staffing deployment, coordination, and oversight.

For applicants or interested parties who needed help accessing the full announcement at the time, the CDC Procurement and Grants Office (PGO) Technical Information Management Section (TIMS) was listed as the contact point, with the phone number 770-488-2700. The listing also notes that the "Additional Information" link in the summary is not active and directs readers to use the "Full Announcement" at the top of the page, indicating that the detailed program requirements, expectations, and allowable costs were intended to be reviewed in the complete notice rather than the brief synopsis.

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