Deadline: 20 February 2025
The United States Department of Health and Human Services is seeking grant proposals to provide targeted combination prevention solutions and approaches to vulnerable, high-risk priority populations, including adolescents and young people, aged between 10-24, in workplaces, schools, and communities.
Aims
- The NOFO aims to create demand for and support the use of the following prevention and response interventions through direct service delivery, referrals, and technical assistance:
- Evidence-based biomedical interventions such as:
- HIV testing services.
- Antiretroviral therapy.
- Pre-exposure prophylaxis (PrEP).
- Post-exposure prophylaxis (PEP).
- Condom promotion and distribution.
- Sexually transmitted infection (STI) screening and treatment.
- Sexual and reproductive health.
- Mental health and substance abuse screening.
- Psychosocial support.
- Minimum package of post-violence care.
- Behavioral interventions such as:
- School and community-based HIV and violence prevention, including health education for all adolescents and youth as well as community leaders, parents, and caregivers.
- HIV risk reduction.
- Structural HIV, TB, and violence interventions such as social mobilization.
- Youth empowerment such as:
- Economic strengthening.
- Gender norm changes.
- Gender-based violence (GBV) prevention.
- Family strengthening programs.
- Evidence-based biomedical interventions such as:
Funding Information
- Expected total NOFO funding for Year 1: $25,000,000
- Expected number of awards: 2. The number of awards is subject to available funds and program priorities
- Duration: They plan to award projects for five 12-month budget periods for a five-year period of performance.
Eligible Activities
- Implement and scale-up HIV combination prevention solutions in priority districts for vulnerable, high-risk priority populations (adolescents, young people, male sex partners, and their families) to increase their knowledge, risk perception, and service uptake.
- Provide high-quality, confidential community HIV testing and counseling services to adolescents, young people, and male sex partners to refer and link them to comprehensive prevention and treatment services.
- Collaborate with key stakeholders to design, strengthen, and implement quality youth-responsive HIV services for adolescents and young people, following the national guidelines to improve access to prevention and treatment services.
Eligibility Criteria
- This is a fully competitive NOFO, and eligibility is unrestricted. Any and all types of organizations are eligible and encouraged to apply, including but not limited to those listed below:
- State governments
- County governments
- City or township governments
- Special district governments
- Independent school districts
- Public and state-controlled institutions of higher education
- Native American tribal governments (federally recognized)
- Public housing authorities and Indian housing authorities
- Native American tribal organizations, other than federally recognized tribal governments
- Nonprofits having a 501(c)(3) status, other than institutions of higher education
- Nonprofits without 501(c)(3) status, other than institutions of higher education
- Private institutions of higher education
- For-profit organizations other than small businesses
- Small businesses
- Foreign or non-U.S. based entities.
For more information, visit Grants.gov.
