ACHIEVING AN AIDS FREE GENERATION | CDC RFA GH15 153102CONT16

Opportunity Information: Apply for CDC RFA GH15 153102CONT16

The grant opportunity titled ACHIEVING AN AIDS FREE GENERATION is a Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) continuation funding announcement issued under CDC RFA GH15-153102CONT16. It is structured as a cooperative agreement, meaning CDC expects to have substantial involvement in the supported work, typically through technical collaboration, shared planning, and ongoing performance oversight. The overall public health purpose is to fund activities that prevent or control disease and improve health outcomes, specifically within the HIV/AIDS context aligned with the President's Emergency Plan for AIDS Relief (PEPFAR). The focus is on strengthening and improving public health programs and services rather than generating new generalizable knowledge through research.

This continuation award is not open as a typical competitive opportunity. Instead, it is explicitly intended only for organizations that were previously funded under the earlier PEPFAR FOA GH15-1531, described as Technical Assistance to Support the Implementation and Evaluation of HIV/AIDS Prevention, Care, Treatment, and Support Activities for Mothers, Children, and Families, associated with award number 1U2GGH001619. In practical terms, the announcement is meant to extend or continue existing work plans and investments already underway with those prior grantees, rather than bring in new applicants. The listing indicates an expected number of awards of about 50, consistent with a continuation action across an established portfolio of recipients.

Programmatically, the work supported under this continuation is centered on implementation support and evaluation-related functions for HIV prevention, care, treatment, and support services, with a particular emphasis on mothers, children, and families. While the title signals the broader goal of an AIDS-free generation, the text emphasizes technical assistance and program improvement activities that help countries, health systems, and implementing partners deliver higher quality services and better outcomes across the HIV service continuum. This typically includes strengthening program delivery, improving integration and coordination of services, supporting monitoring systems, building workforce capacity, and assisting with the roll-out or refinement of evidence-based interventions tied to PEPFAR priorities.

A key restriction is that recipients may not use funds for research. The FOA draws a clear line between research and non-research public health activities. However, it also notes that certain activities commonly used in public health practice can be supported even if an institution requires human subjects review. Examples named in the announcement include formative assessments, surveys, disease surveillance, program monitoring and evaluation, and field evaluations of diagnostic tests. These are framed as activities that are generally considered non-research (when conducted for programmatic purposes rather than to contribute to generalizable knowledge), but recipients still need to follow applicable institutional and ethical review requirements when relevant. In other words, the funding is meant to support practical, real-world data collection and evaluation that improves programs, not experimental or hypothesis-driven research studies.

From the administrative details provided, the opportunity sits within the Health funding activity category and is associated with CFDA number 93.067. The eligible applicants field is listed broadly as "Others," but the narrative eligibility condition effectively narrows participation to prior awardees under the specified earlier FOA. The original closing date shown is November 30, 2015, and the creation date is September 14, 2015, which aligns with the continuation nature of the announcement rather than an open, ongoing solicitation. The award ceiling is listed as 0, which often indicates that a specific maximum amount is not stated in the public synopsis and that actual award levels depend on available appropriations, approved continuation budgets, and CDC/PEPFAR program decisions.

In summary, ACHIEVING AN AIDS FREE GENERATION (CDC RFA GH15-153102CONT16) is a CDC cooperative agreement continuation mechanism under PEPFAR designed to maintain and support previously funded partners delivering technical assistance and program improvement work for HIV/AIDS prevention, care, treatment, and support, particularly for mothers, children, and families. It funds practical public health implementation and evaluation activities, allows certain non-research activities that may involve human subjects review, and explicitly prohibits the use of funds for research.

• The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention in the health sector is offering a public funding opportunity titled "ACHIEVING AN AIDS FREE GENERATION" and is now available to receive applicants.
• Interested and eligible applicants and submit their applications by referencing the CFDA number(s): 93.067.
• This funding opportunity was created on 2015-09-14.
• Applicants must submit their applications by 2015-11-30. (Agency may still review applications by suitable applicants for the remaining/unused allocated funding in 2026.)
• The number of recipients for this funding is limited to 50 candidate(s).
• Eligible applicants include: Others.

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