Technical Assistance Support for the Strengthening of Blood Transfusion Services to Decrease HIV and Other Transfusion Transmitted Infections in Selected Countries under the President's Emergency Plan for AIDS Relief

The summary for the Technical Assistance Support for the Strengthening of Blood Transfusion Services to Decrease HIV and Other Transfusion Transmitted Infections in Selected Countries under the President's Emergency Plan for AIDS Relief grant is detailed below. This summary states who is eligible for the grant, how much grant money will be awarded, current and past deadlines, Catalog of Federal Domestic Assistance (CFDA) numbers, and a sampling of similar government grants. Verify the accuracy of the data FederalGrants.com provides by visiting the webpage noted in the Link to Full Announcement section or by contacting the appropriate person listed as the Grant Announcement Contact. If any section is incomplete, please visit the website for the Centers for Disease Control CGH, which is the U.S. government agency offering this grant.

Technical Assistance Support for the Strengthening of Blood Transfusion Services to Decrease HIV and Other Transfusion Transmitted Infections in Selected Countries under the President's Emergency Plan for AIDS Relief: The purpose of this FOA is to strengthen the prevention of HIV transmission by ensuring that services provided by National Blood Transfusion Services (NBTS) in selected countries meet global standards for quality and safety including behavioral screening; blood collection from regular voluntary non-remunerated low risk blood donors; quality blood processing and testing for transfusion transmissible infections; blood component production, appropriate clinical use of blood, and haemovigilance testing, and quality, and by increasing the capacity to ensure adequate referral and tracing of blood donors with HIV reactive results to HTC programs for prevention counseling, confirmatory testing, and treatment services. By strengthening safer vein-to-vein practices, and ensuring consistent follow-up and linkage to care and treatment services for HIV positive individuals, the proposed activities will help establish a quality-assured and safe blood supply, and contribute to the 90-90-90 targets.