UV947276
Project Grant
Overview
Grant Description
Office of Global Health - This application is responsive to HRSA 22-160. The Historically Black Colleges and Universities Global Health Consortium (HBCU-GHC/Consortium) work in Zambia and Malawi is consistent with the purposes described in the Notice of Funding Opportunity (NOFO).
Our program outcomes are aligned with the following:
1) Leveraging health service equity approaches for sustainable HIV epidemic control in Zambia and Malawi.
2) Developing and expanding unique platforms to bring best practices from domestic experiences to assist the global HIV/AIDS program to sustain the goal of reaching epidemic control in Zambia, Malawi, and other PEPFAR-supported countries.
3) Continuing and implementing HIV person-centered programs that are innovative and transformative in the provision of clinical care.
Additionally, our history as HBCUs demonstrates our expertise in training adolescents, girls, and young women (AGYW) in the DREAMS model as health surveillance assistants in Malawi.
The mission of the consortium is to support the Ministry of Health in Zambia, Malawi, and other PEPFAR countries to address the UNAIDS 95-95-95 targets through the optimization of person-family-centered health care. The consortium has designed, developed, and implemented synergistic initiatives in Zambia and now Malawi. It has held two sub-awards over the last five years with the American International Health Alliance (2017-2019) and HW 21-JHPIEGO (2019-2022). Both organizations acted in a fiscal intermediary role. All program initiatives were carried out by the consortium.
HBCU-GHC addresses HIV affecting adults, adolescents, girls, young women, and mothers and babies in Zambia. It will also conduct a secondary education training program in Malawi to improve the economic impact on the lives of AGYW. There are four (4) black medical schools who are members of the consortium:
1) Charles R. Drew University of Medicine and Science (CDU), Los Angeles, California
2) Howard University School of Medicine, Washington, DC (HU)
3) Meharry Medical College (MMC), Nashville, Tennessee
4) Morehouse School of Medicine (MSM), Atlanta, Georgia
The consortium operates in three (3) provinces (Copperbelt, Lusaka, and Southern) and in 45 facilities. The intent of the application is to demonstrate strategies and approaches that will reduce discrimination, stigma, and economic impact on persons and families affected by HIV. Its programs and initiatives address prevention of HIV in key populations (KPs), stigma, discrimination, health disparities, access, utilization and case management, and advancing health equity, sustainability through training, and cultural competency in person care including prevention and treatment.
Using integrated models across four flagship hospital facilities (Matero, Chilenje, Kanyama, and Chawama), health centers, and health posts, the consortium has a presence in 23 health facilities across Lusaka, of which 13 are direct service delivery sites, and ten are technical assistance sites. Additionally, there are eighteen drop-in centers, mobile hotspot outreach, and supported key population (KP)-friendly public facilities.
Our strategies and approaches include implementing wraparound HIV services for adults, moms, children, adolescents, and young women, community engagement, ensuring facilities have well-trained and supervised healthcare workers to provide KP-friendly and sensitive clinical services, using KP lay personnel such as mentor moms, community health workers, peer educators, and HIV positive peer navigators to reach KPs, and providing direct service delivery to beneficiaries in the community.
In Malawi, the consortium will continue to coordinate with KP communities, the Ministry of Health, PEPFAR, and local governmental agencies in Blantyre, Machinga, and Zomba to offer AGYW training in HIV, replicated from successful AGYW programming in Zambia at supported sites to facilitate the provision of friendly and respectful integrated KP services.
Our program outcomes are aligned with the following:
1) Leveraging health service equity approaches for sustainable HIV epidemic control in Zambia and Malawi.
2) Developing and expanding unique platforms to bring best practices from domestic experiences to assist the global HIV/AIDS program to sustain the goal of reaching epidemic control in Zambia, Malawi, and other PEPFAR-supported countries.
3) Continuing and implementing HIV person-centered programs that are innovative and transformative in the provision of clinical care.
Additionally, our history as HBCUs demonstrates our expertise in training adolescents, girls, and young women (AGYW) in the DREAMS model as health surveillance assistants in Malawi.
The mission of the consortium is to support the Ministry of Health in Zambia, Malawi, and other PEPFAR countries to address the UNAIDS 95-95-95 targets through the optimization of person-family-centered health care. The consortium has designed, developed, and implemented synergistic initiatives in Zambia and now Malawi. It has held two sub-awards over the last five years with the American International Health Alliance (2017-2019) and HW 21-JHPIEGO (2019-2022). Both organizations acted in a fiscal intermediary role. All program initiatives were carried out by the consortium.
HBCU-GHC addresses HIV affecting adults, adolescents, girls, young women, and mothers and babies in Zambia. It will also conduct a secondary education training program in Malawi to improve the economic impact on the lives of AGYW. There are four (4) black medical schools who are members of the consortium:
1) Charles R. Drew University of Medicine and Science (CDU), Los Angeles, California
2) Howard University School of Medicine, Washington, DC (HU)
3) Meharry Medical College (MMC), Nashville, Tennessee
4) Morehouse School of Medicine (MSM), Atlanta, Georgia
The consortium operates in three (3) provinces (Copperbelt, Lusaka, and Southern) and in 45 facilities. The intent of the application is to demonstrate strategies and approaches that will reduce discrimination, stigma, and economic impact on persons and families affected by HIV. Its programs and initiatives address prevention of HIV in key populations (KPs), stigma, discrimination, health disparities, access, utilization and case management, and advancing health equity, sustainability through training, and cultural competency in person care including prevention and treatment.
Using integrated models across four flagship hospital facilities (Matero, Chilenje, Kanyama, and Chawama), health centers, and health posts, the consortium has a presence in 23 health facilities across Lusaka, of which 13 are direct service delivery sites, and ten are technical assistance sites. Additionally, there are eighteen drop-in centers, mobile hotspot outreach, and supported key population (KP)-friendly public facilities.
Our strategies and approaches include implementing wraparound HIV services for adults, moms, children, adolescents, and young women, community engagement, ensuring facilities have well-trained and supervised healthcare workers to provide KP-friendly and sensitive clinical services, using KP lay personnel such as mentor moms, community health workers, peer educators, and HIV positive peer navigators to reach KPs, and providing direct service delivery to beneficiaries in the community.
In Malawi, the consortium will continue to coordinate with KP communities, the Ministry of Health, PEPFAR, and local governmental agencies in Blantyre, Machinga, and Zomba to offer AGYW training in HIV, replicated from successful AGYW programming in Zambia at supported sites to facilitate the provision of friendly and respectful integrated KP services.
Awardee
Funding Goals
NOT APPLICABLE
Grant Program (CFDA)
Awarding / Funding Agency
Place of Performance
Nashville,
Tennessee
United States
Geographic Scope
City-Wide
Related Opportunity
Analysis Notes
Amendment Since initial award the total obligations have increased 314% from $6,234,000 to $25,816,024.
Meharry Medical College was awarded
HBCU-GHC/Consortium: HIV Control in Zambia & Malawi
Project Grant UV947276
worth $25,816,024
from the HRSA Office of Federal Assistance Management in September 2022 with work to be completed primarily in Nashville Tennessee United States.
The grant
has a duration of 5 years and
was awarded through assistance program 93.266 Health Systems Strengthening and HIV/AIDS Prevention, Care and Treatment under the President's Emergency Plan for AIDS Relief.
The Project Grant was awarded through grant opportunity Leveraging Health Service Equity Approaches for Sustainable HIV Epidemic Control.
Status
(Ongoing)
Last Modified 9/26/25
Period of Performance
9/30/22
Start Date
9/29/27
End Date
Funding Split
$25.8M
Federal Obligation
$0.0
Non-Federal Obligation
$25.8M
Total Obligated
Activity Timeline
Transaction History
Modifications to UV947276
Additional Detail
Award ID FAIN
UV947276
SAI Number
UV947276-3372041760
Award ID URI
SAI UNAVAILABLE
Awardee Classifications
Other
Awarding Office
75RJ00 HRSA Office of Federal Assistance Management
Funding Office
75RA00 HRSA OFFICE OF THE ADMINISTRATOR
Awardee UEI
DLTJBDQBGBC9
Awardee CAGE
4W784
Performance District
TN-90
Senators
Marsha Blackburn
Bill Hagerty
Bill Hagerty
Budget Funding
| Federal Account | Budget Subfunction | Object Class | Total | Percentage |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Global Health Programs, State (019-1031) | International development and humanitarian assistance | Grants, subsidies, and contributions (41.0) | $12,700,000 | 100% |
Modified: 9/26/25