Health Department Demonstration Projects for Comprehensive Prevention, Care, Behavioral Health, and Social Services for Men Who Have Sex with Men of Color at Risk for and Living with HIV Infection

The summary for the Health Department Demonstration Projects for Comprehensive Prevention, Care, Behavioral Health, and Social Services for Men Who Have Sex with Men of Color at Risk for and Living with HIV Infection 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 and Prevention, which is the U.S. government agency offering this grant.

Health Department Demonstration Projects for Comprehensive Prevention, Care, Behavioral Health, and Social Services for Men Who Have Sex with Men of Color at Risk for and Living with HIV Infection:

Purpose: To decrease the burden of HIV among MSM of color, this FOA supports health departments to collaborate with CBOs clinics and/or health care providers to implement models of comprehensive HIV prevention and care services for MSM of color who are at substantial risk for or living with HIV infection. Health departments and organizations within the collaboratives will prioritize services for this population, but no persons will be turned away, regardless of their race, ethnicity, or other demographic characteristic. Services may also be provided for persons besides MSM of color who are at risk for HIV acquisition and PLWH who are not virally suppressed.

Federal Grant Title:	Health Department Demonstration Projects for Comprehensive Prevention, Care, Behavioral Health, and Social Services for Men Who Have Sex with Men of Color at Risk for and Living with HIV Infection
Federal Agency Name:	Centers for Disease Control and Prevention
Grant Categories:	Health
Type of Opportunity:	Discretionary
Funding Opportunity Number:	CDC-RFA-PS15-1509
Type of Funding:	Cooperative Agreement
CFDA Numbers:	93.940
CFDA Descriptions:	HIV Prevention Activities_Health Department Based
Current Application Deadline:	Jun 1, 2015 Electronically submitted applications
Original Application Deadline:	Jun 1, 2015 Electronically submitted applications
Posted Date:	Mar 31, 2015
Creation Date:	Mar 31, 2015
Archive Date:	Jul 1, 2015
Total Program Funding:	$14,000,000
Maximum Federal Grant Award:	$2,333,333
Minimum Federal Grant Award:	$1,750,000
Expected Number of Awards:	6
Cost Sharing or Matching:	No

Applicants Eligible for this Grant: State governments
City or township governments
County governments
Additional Information on Eligibility: 1. Eligible Applicants:
Applicants must meet one of the following two criteria:
-Morbidity Criteria: Metropolitan Statistical Areas/Divisions with >2,000 Black and/or Hispanic MSM living with diagnosed HIV
o Focuses on MSA targets areas where most MSM are accessible
o Threshold of 2,000 ensures a large participant pool to robustly demonstrate the prevention and care service models
-Mortality Criteria: States in the 4th quartile for mortality rates as reported in the State Progress Report and have >1,000 Black and/or Hispanic MSM living with diagnosed HIV in a specified MSA
Jurisdictions eligible under the morbidity criteria cannot apply under the mortality criteria.
State health departments with one eligible MSA are required to work in the specified eligible MSA or MD. States that have more than one eligible MSA may elect to work in all or a reduced number of eligible MSAs, in order of prevalence.
States that have local health departments directly funded by CDC are not eligible to apply for the MSAs or MDs that contain locally funded health departments within the state.
Funding will be awarded to up to 2 health department that meets the Mortality Criteria.
CDC will not consider any application that is submitted: after the due date of June 1, 2015, 11:59 p.m. U.S. Eastern Standard Time; incomplete; missing descriptions of any of the required 24 services for comprehensive HIV prevention and care (Strategies and Activities section); or missing MOAs, MOUs, or letters of support for service agreements from each collaborative partners (Strategies and Activities section).

**Please see additional information on eligiblity criteria in Section 3 Justification for Less than Maximum Competition**
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Grant Announcement Contact: Brian Kolodziejski [email protected]
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