Improving HIV/AIDS Surveillance and Program Evaluation in the Republic of Cote d’Ivoire under the President’s Emergency Plan for AIDS Relief (PEPFAR) | CDC RFA GH13 135203CONT16

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The grant opportunity titled "Improving HIV/AIDS Surveillance and Program Evaluation in the Republic of Cote d'Ivoire under the President's Emergency Plan for AIDS Relief (PEPFAR)" is a U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) funding announcement focused on strengthening HIV/AIDS surveillance systems and program evaluation efforts in Cote d'Ivoire. It sits under the broader PEPFAR framework, which supports countries in controlling the HIV epidemic through better prevention, treatment, and data-driven public health decision-making. The overall intent of this specific opportunity is not to start a new program from scratch, but to maintain and extend ongoing work that helps ensure HIV services and outcomes are properly tracked, measured, and improved over time.

This announcement is explicitly categorized as continuation funding, meaning it is intended only for organizations that were previously awarded under the earlier related funding opportunity, identified as CDC-RFA-GH13-1352. In practice, that restriction is one of the most important features of the announcement: it is not an open competition for new applicants. Instead, it is designed to continue supporting existing grantees so that established surveillance and evaluation activities can remain operational, consistent, and effective without interruption. The funding opportunity number for this continuation action is CDC RFA GH13 135203CONT16, which signals it is tied to the original initiative and represents a continuation cycle rather than a standalone new solicitation.

The funding instrument is a cooperative agreement, which typically indicates that CDC expects to have substantial involvement in the work as it is carried out. While the details of activities are not spelled out in the short description provided, cooperative agreements in the surveillance and evaluation space commonly involve close technical collaboration, shared planning, and ongoing engagement with CDC on methodology, quality standards, reporting, and use of findings. The activity category is listed as Health, and the relevant CFDA number is 93.067, which corresponds to a CDC program assistance listing used for tracking and administrative purposes across federal systems.

From an administrative standpoint, the opportunity was created on September 29, 2015, with an original closing date of November 30, 2015. The listing notes an award ceiling of 0 and does not specify the number of expected awards, which often happens in continuation notices because budgets and award counts may be predetermined based on prior-year awards, availability of funds, and approved continuation applications rather than being competed with a published maximum. The eligible applicant category is shown as "Others," but that label is less informative here because the description makes clear that eligibility is effectively limited to prior awardees under the earlier CDC-RFA-GH13-1352 program.

In plain terms, this opportunity represents CDC's mechanism for continuing PEPFAR-supported HIV surveillance and program evaluation work in Cote d'Ivoire by extending funding to existing partners. The underlying public health goal is to ensure that HIV/AIDS programs are guided by reliable data and rigorous evaluation, supporting better monitoring of the epidemic and improving program performance. Even without additional technical details in the provided text, the title and structure strongly indicate a focus on maintaining and strengthening the systems that generate actionable information for HIV response planning, implementation oversight, and measurement of progress.

• The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention in the health sector is offering a public funding opportunity titled "Improving HIV/AIDS Surveillance and Program Evaluation in the Republic of Cote d’Ivoire under the President’s Emergency Plan for AIDS Relief (PEPFAR)" 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 2015-09-29.
• 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.)
• Eligible applicants include: Others.

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