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Global Tuberculosis:Developing,Evaluating,Implementing Evidence-based and Innovative Approaches to Find, Cure, and Prevent Tuberculosis Globally (93.494)

Global Tuberculosis:Developing,Evaluating,Implementing Evidence-based and Innovative Approaches to Find, Cure, and Prevent Tuberculosis Globally (Assistance Listing 93.494) is run by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, part of the Department of Health and Human Services. It awarded $18.4 million in 14 grants from fiscal 2021 to 2025, about $1.3 million per award on average. No funding opportunity is open on Grants.gov right now.

The typical award was $725,000. Half of the 14 awards fell between $262,500 and $1.3 million, and they ranged from $60,000 to $5.3 million.

Key findings

What the program funds

CDC’s global health priorities include efforts towards ending the global tuberculosis (TB) epidemic by: expanding access to improved screening, contact tracing, and diagnostic tools to find the missing TB cases (FIND); optimizing treatment for TB and multi-drug-resistant (MDR) TB, including identifying and evaluating better treatment regimens, and expanding access to care and treatment (CURE); breaking the cycle of TB transmission by strengthening infection control, identifying TB hotspots to target screening, and scaling-up treatment to prevent TB (PREVENT); and helping countries strengthen their surveillance and laboratory systems, and workforce and research capacity to support sustainable health systems including promoting the wider use and adoption of recommended TB strategies and guidelines (SUSTAIN).

From the federal Assistance Listing. Read the full listing on SAM.gov.

Open opportunities

No opportunity under this program is open or forecast on Grants.gov right now. Programs often post once a year, so the funding history below shows what to expect.

Rules from the program listing

Who can apply

Competition is open, limited, or single eligibility by authorizing legislation.

What the money can and cannot pay for

Uses and Restrictions are specified in individual Notice of Funding Opportunities. Funds may be spent for reasonable program purposes, including personnel, travel, operating costs including supplies, fuel for transportation, utilities, staff training costs including registration fees and purchase and rental of training related equipment, and purchase of reagents, test kits and laboratory equipment for Tuberculosis (TB) testing and services. Equipment may be purchased if deemed necessary to accomplish program objectives; however, prior approval by CDC officials must be requested in writing. All requests for funds contained in the budget shall be stated in U.S. dollars. Once an award is made, CDC will not compensate foreign grantees for currency exchange fluctuations through the issuance of supplemental awards. The costs that are generally allowable in grants to domestic organizations are allowable to foreign institutions and international organizations, with the following exception: With the exception of the American University, Beirut, and the World Health Organization (WHO), Indirect Costs will not be paid (either directly or through sub-award) to organizations located outside the territorial limits of the United States or to international organizations regardless of their location.

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Matching requirements

This program has no statutory formula. Matching requirements are not applicable to this assistance listing. MOE requirements are not applicable to this assistance listing.

Award range and average, in the agency's words

Awards may range from $700,000 to $3,500,000. Average award is expected at $2,491,622.

Quoted from the program's federal Assistance Listing. The notice of funding opportunity is the official source for each competition's rules.

Funding history and past recipients

From fiscal 2021 to 2025, Global Tuberculosis:Developing,Evaluating,Implementing Evidence-based and Innovative Approaches to Find, Cure, and Prevent Tuberculosis Globally (93.494) awarded $18.4 million across 14 grant awards, an average of $1.3 million per award.

Largest recipients, fiscal 2021 to 2025
RecipientStateAwardsAmount
Baylor College of MedicineTexas1$5.3 million
United Nations Office for Project Services1$4.2 million
PathWashington1$2.7 million
World Health Organization, Somalia1$1.3 million
Union Internat Tuberculose Maladie Respi1$1.3 million
Ird VN Social Enterprise Company Limited1$1.0 million
Society for Health Allied Research and Education India (Share India)1$750,000
Vietnam National Lung Hospital1$700,000
Georgetown UniversityDistrict of Columbia1$400,000
The Task Force for Global Health, Inc.Georgia1$300,000
African Field Epidemiology Network LTD1$250,000
The Aurum Institute NPC1$119,679
Association of Public Health Laboratories, Inc. (the)Maryland1$100,000
Vietnam Administration for Medical Services, Moh1$60,000

Top states: Texas ($5.3 million), Washington ($2.7 million), District of Columbia ($400,000), Georgia ($300,000), Maryland ($100,000).

Who usually wins

Colleges and universities received 31% of the money, nonprofits 30%.

Recipient typeAwardsAmountShare
Other6$7.2 million39%
Colleges and universities2$5.7 million31%
Nonprofits6$5.5 million30%

By state

2 states have a page for this program: those that received at least $1 million or 10 awards. They are Texas and Washington.

Grants by recipient's state, fiscal 2021 to 2025
StateAwardsAmount
Texas1$5.3 million
Washington1$2.7 million
District of Columbia1$400,000
Georgia1$300,000
Maryland1$100,000

Award amounts are federal obligations reported to USAspending.gov for fiscal 2021 to 2025; see how our data works.