# Strengthening Laboratory Capacity and Quality for HIV Diagnosis, Care, Treatment, and Monitoring in Malawi under the President's Emergency Plan for AIDS Relief (PEPFAR)

Source: https://welltoldgrants.com/grants/cdc-rfa-gh-24-0097-strengthening-laboratory-capacity-and-quality-for-hiv/  
Official notice: https://www.grants.gov/search-results-detail/350505

> Centers for Disease Control - CGH offered grants to any type of organization. It expected to make about 2 awards. Applications closed on February 22, 2024.

| Field | Value |
|---|---|
| Opportunity number | CDC-RFA-GH-24-0097 |
| Agency | Centers for Disease Control - CGH |
| Status | Forecast |
| Deadline | February 22, 2024 |
| Award ceiling | not stated |
| Award floor | not stated |
| Expected awards | 2 |
| Total funding | not stated |
| Cost sharing | not required |
| Assistance Listings | 93.067 |

## Who can apply

- Unrestricted (i.e., open to any type of entity above), subject to any clarification in text field entitled "Additional Information on Eligibility"

## What the grant funds

The Award Ceiling for Year 1 is 0 (none). CDC anticipates an Approximate Total Fiscal Year Funding amount of $8,375,000 for Year 1, subject to the availability of funds. As Malawi strives to reach HIV epidemic control, there is a need to improve and sustain achievements in the national laboratory systems. Technical assistance (TA) to the Ministry of Health (MOH) will ensure universal diagnostics access and address public health system gaps. For sustainability, MOH’s public health laboratory capabilities will be strengthened for governance and ownership, National Reference Laboratories (NRL) capacity will be built for surveillance and outbreak responses, and the HIV laboratory program will be integrated into broader disease areas. Priorities include scaling up patient-centered approaches to identify and address challenges of low viral load coverage (VLC) and suppression in different age groups and populations, point of care testing (POCT) laboratories for integrated multi-disease tests, and rapid testing continuous quality improvement (RTCQI) to achieve national certification. Other priorities include improving access for advanced HIV disease (AHD) and pre-exposure prophylaxis (PrEP) tests, conducting regular diagnostic network optimization to ensure efficiencies and testing accessibility, increasing utilization of high throughput instruments in conventional molecular laboratories to improve VLC, improving biosafety and waste management, preparing additional laboratories for International Organization for Standardization (ISO) accreditations, and extending the external quality assessment (EQA) program to multiple testing parameters.

## Questions people ask

### Is CDC-RFA-GH-24-0097 still open?

No. It closed on February 22, 2024.

### Who can apply for Strengthening Laboratory Capacity and Quality for HIV Diagnosis, Care, Treatment, and Monitoring in Malawi under the President's Emergency Plan for AIDS Relief (PEPFAR)?

Centers for Disease Control - CGH accepted applications from any type of organization.

### What is the deadline for Strengthening Laboratory Capacity and Quality for HIV Diagnosis, Care, Treatment, and Monitoring in Malawi under the President's Emergency Plan for AIDS Relief (PEPFAR)?

Closed February 22, 2024. Applications are no longer accepted; the program's newer notices are on this page when there are any.

### Who has won Global AIDS grants before?

The largest recipients over five fiscal years were The Trustees of Columbia University in the City of New York, Elizabeth Glaser Pediatric AIDS Foundation, Management and Development for Health. The program made 521 awards worth $7.6 billion in that time.