Supporting the National Blood Transfusion Service in the Implementation and Expansion of Blood Safety Activities in Ethiopia under the President’s Emergency Plan for AIDS Relief | Apply Online

Opportunity Summary:

The grant opportunity titled "Supporting the National Blood Transfusion Service in the Implementation and Expansion of Blood Safety Activities in Ethiopia under the President's Emergency Plan for AIDS Relief" is a U.S. government supplemental funding announcement issued by the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (HHS-CDC). It sits under PEPFAR, meaning the broader public health purpose is tied to strengthening systems that reduce HIV transmission risk and improve safe healthcare delivery, with blood safety being a core component. The mechanism is a cooperative agreement, which typically means CDC would expect to have substantial involvement in planning, monitoring, and technical coordination rather than simply issuing funds with minimal interaction.

This opportunity is narrowly targeted in terms of who can apply. The eligible applicant identified is Ethiopia's National Blood Transfusion Service (NBTS) under the Federal Ministry of Health (FMOH). The description emphasizes that the FMOH is the accountable public authority responsible for NBTS and that NBTS holds the national mandate for blood transfusion services. It also explains the institutional history: after a period of collaboration with the Ethiopian Red Cross Society, the FMOH/NBTS assumed full responsibility for national blood transfusion service delivery starting in 2010. A Federal Proclamation in January 2015 then established NBTS as a semi-autonomous agency accountable to the FMOH, reinforcing its national role and formal governance structure.

Programmatically, the focus is on implementing and expanding blood safety activities across Ethiopia in line with NBTS's mandate. The opportunity language highlights NBTS responsibilities across the entire blood transfusion chain: regulation, coordination, and oversight of blood collection, testing, storage, and distribution, along with ensuring appropriate clinical use of blood. In practical terms, those functions cover both the supply side (recruiting and collecting blood from donors, screening and testing units, maintaining cold chain and inventory systems, and distributing blood products) and the demand side (ensuring blood is used appropriately in clinical settings through proper indication, transfusion practices, and oversight). Framing the grant under blood safety activities indicates an emphasis on reducing transfusion-transmitted infections and improving quality systems, which aligns closely with PEPFAR goals.

From an administrative standpoint, the notice identifies the opportunity as discretionary funding with a single expected award. It is listed under CFDA 93.067, a CDC/PEPFAR-associated assistance listing. The opportunity number is CDC-RFA-PS10-10111SUPP16, and it was posted on January 4, 2016 with a closing date of February 29, 2016. The award ceiling is shown as 0 in the source data, which usually indicates that the ceiling amount was not specified in the public synopsis or that the amount would be defined through the supplemental funding context rather than a standard competitive cap.

Overall, the announcement is essentially a targeted supplemental cooperative agreement intended to help Ethiopia's NBTS, under the authority of the FMOH, carry out and scale national blood safety and transfusion service functions. It reinforces NBTS's legal mandate and centralized responsibility for ensuring that blood collection and transfusion practices are coordinated, regulated, and safe nationwide, with CDC support structured through close technical partnership rather than a hands-off grant.

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