Strengthening HIV Treatment, Laboratory Services, Medication Assisted Therapy, and Program Monitoring in Ukraine under the President's Emergency Plan for AIDS Relief (PEPFAR)

Background
The HIV epidemic in Ukraine predominantly impacts key populations (KPs) with the largest burden among people who inject drugs (PWID) and men who have sex with men (MSM). PEPFAR has been providing technical support to Ukraine to scale up index testing and for sexual and needle-sharing partners, social network testing, and increased access to pre-exposure prophylaxis (PrEP) and medicated assisted therapy for PWID. PEPFAR has also been supporting improved access to World Health Organization (WHO) recommended first line antiretroviral therapies (ARTs) and delivery strategies to improve retention and viral suppression.

This NOFO will create an enabling policy environment and full implementation of the HIV electronic data entry system (HIV MIS). The strategies include providing technical assistance (TA) for HIV testing and treatment providers to enhance care and treatment, to create a National Medical Assisted Therapy (MAT) Hub to ensure government leadership in MAT scale up and enhance laboratory capacity. The assistance provided will ensure national level strengthening of surveillance, research, and epidemiology (SRE) by focusing on improved HIV case-based, mortality, surveillance, epidemic modelling, routine KP cascade based on program and medical data, and HIV drug resistance (DR). All activities will build capacity and contribute to achieving 95-95-95 targets and maintain epidemic control in Ukraine.

Grant Details
The purpose of this NOFO is to support the Ministry of Health (MOH) and Public Health Center (PHC) to continue improving their technical capacity and service provision of HIV prevention and treatment interventions. The NOFO will enhance the government's ability to enhance monitoring with quality strategic information.

The strategies include strengthening national HIV prevention, case finding, treatment through technical assistance to regional and national centers among key populations in PEPFAR priority oblasts; policy and guideline development; technical assistance to enhance national medication assisted therapy framework and capacity; technical assistance to enhance laboratory capacity and quality; technical assistance to enhance availability, quality, and timeliness of HIV surveillance data.

Eligibility Requirements
Single

Period of Performance
The Approximate Total Fiscal Year Funding/Average One Year Award Amount/Approximate Average Award amount for Year 1 is $3,000,000. The expected number of awards is 1. Exact amounts for each award under this NOFO will be determined at the time of award. The Approximate Project Period of Performance Funding/Estimated Total Funding for the Total 5 year Project Period is None.

Grant Value
$3,000,000

Place of Performance
Ukraine