Building capacity along the HIV continuum in the Central America (CA) region under the President's Emergency Plan for AIDS Relief (PEPFAR)
Status: Open
Posted date: October 1, 2025
Archive date: March 19, 2026
Opportunity ID: 360704
Opportunity number: CDC-RFA-JG-26-0130
Opportunity category: Discretionary
Agency name: Centers for Disease Control-GHC
Agency code: HHS-CDC-GHC
Award floor: $0
Award ceiling: $0
Cost sharing required: No
Funding Instrument Types
- Cooperative Agreement
Category of Funding Activity
- Health
Eligible Applicants
- City or township governments
- County governments
- For-profit organizations other than small businesses
- Independent school districts
- Native American tribal governments (Federally recognized)
- Native American tribal organizations (other than Federally recognized tribal governments)
- Nonprofits having a 501 (c) (3) status with the IRS, other than institutions of higher education
- Nonprofits that do not have a 501 (c) (3) status with the IRS, other than institutions of higher education
- Private institutions of higher education
- Public and State controlled institutions of higher education
- Public housing authorities/Indian housing authorities
- Small businesses
- Special district governments
- State governments
- Unrestricted
Categories (use these for quoted searches)
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- category_of_funding_activity:health
- cost_sharing_or_matching_requirement:false
- eligible_applicants:city_or_township_governments
- eligible_applicants:county_governments
- eligible_applicants:for_profit_organizations_other_than_small_businesses
- eligible_applicants:independent_school_districts
- eligible_applicants:native_american_tribal_governments_federally_recognized
- eligible_applicants:native_american_tribal_organizations_other_than_federally_recognized_tribal_governments
- eligible_applicants:nonprofits_having_a_501_c_3_status_with_the_irs_other_than_institutions_of_higher_education
- eligible_applicants:nonprofits_that_do_not_have_a_501_c_3_status_with_the_irs_other_than_institutions_of_higher_education
- eligible_applicants:private_institutions_of_higher_education
- eligible_applicants:public_and_state_controlled_institutions_of_higher_education
- eligible_applicants:public_housing_authoritiesindian_housing_authorities
- eligible_applicants:small_businesses
- eligible_applicants:special_district_governments
- eligible_applicants:state_governments
- eligible_applicants:unrestricted
- funding_instrument_type:cooperative_agreement
- opportunity_category:discretionary
- status:open
The Award Ceiling for Year 1 is 0 (none). CDC anticipates an Approximate Total Fiscal Year Funding amount of $20,000,000 for Year 1, subject to the availability of funds.This NOFO will enhance the capacity of public health staff in El Salvador, Guatemala, Honduras, Nicaragua, and Panama to address gaps in achieving the 95-95-95 targets to end the AIDS epidemic as a public health threat.Focuses of the NOFO include:Integrating HIV services into broader health systems programs and fostering self-reliance.Scaling up access to life-saving HIV services for people at high-risk of HIV through the Sentinel Surveillance and Control of STIs (VICITS/CLAM) strategy.Improving access to HIV testing through active case-finding strategies, including but not limited to testing as part of outreach for priority populations; index, provide-initiated, and community testing; and self-testing.Supporting early treatment initiation, retention, adherence, management of advanced HIV disease (AHD), TB, and opportunistic infections (OIs), access to CD4 count, and viral load (VL) monitoring/suppression, expansion of differentiated service delivery models, and provision of complementary services at a site level.Strengthening the skills of healthcare workers to provide lifesaving, high-quality HIV services while also enhancing the capacity of ministries to maintain and continuously improve HIV initiatives, leading to achieving sustainable epidemic control.