The purpose of this funding opportunity announcement is to build laboratory capacity and improve the provision of HIV, TB, and STI/OI testing activities and disease monitoring to scale up HIV/AIDS prevention and care and treatment programs.
The work associated with this FOA will continue the
gains made in the improvement of laboratory capacity accomplished with the previous cooperative agreement (CDC-RFA-PS09-923).
The awardee is expected to cover all laboratories at the national, regional, district, and health center levels.
Support will focus on increasing access to diagnosis and monitoring services through decentralization and scale up of cost-effective technologies and overall quality improvement of services, which will contribute to the scale up of national HIV/AIDS care and treatment services.
The awardee will work in collaboration with HHS/CDC office in Lesotho to achieve program outcomes.
All activities implemented under this program will follow national policies, national strategic plans, and guidelines for laboratory monitoring of HIV care and treatment and priorities of CDC/PEPFAR support in Lesotho.
Related ProgramsGlobal AIDS
Department of Health and Human Services