Assisting Directly Funded AIDS Directors in Urban Jurisdictions and Other HIV Prevention Partners in Meeting the Changes in the Public Healthcare Systems and HIV Prevention Landscape

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CDC is committed to working with public health systems to ensure planners, developers, and implementers of public health initiatives possess the skills and resources needed to better address the HIV/AIDS epidemic. The purpose of this FOA is to support AIDS Directors representing directly funded urban jurisdictions and other constituents in complying with the responsibilities established in NHAS, HIP and address: •Changes in the public health systems and HIV prevention landscape have increased the demand for: utilizing s data to make programmatic decisions; increased collaboration and coordination across federal funding streams at the local level; as well as, new and different business models. •Demand for information around CDC’s programs, policy changes, and update is not being met in a timely manner. •Few resources increased the need and demand for strategic national, community-level,public, and private sector partnerships with AIDS Directors representing directly funded urban jurisdictions and other prevention partners. •Changes in the public health systems and HIV prevention landscape have increased the demand for the practice based approaches that has been proven to be successful and most easily acquired through peer-to-peer support for program development, planning, management and administration. This program will have two tiers of activities: •(Category A) Ensure the provision of high-quality technical assistance to facilitate active communication, consultation, and problem solving between local and state health departments and other prevention partners. These services will support the implementation of high impact HIV prevention programs in order to achieve maximal results in addressing the HIV/AIDS epidemic and reducing new HIV infections. •(Category B) Additional services provided under this FOA are geared to enhance or secure billing methods, as well as develop formal public and private partnerships to streamline services in a cost-effective and sustainable manner.

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