Establishment of a Strategic Partnership to Strengthen the Council of Ministries of Health of Central America (COMISCA) in Central America (CA) and the Dominican Republic (DR) under the President's Emergency Plan for AIDS Relief (PEPFAR)

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The Award Ceiling for Year 1 is 0 (none). CDC anticipates an Approximate Total Fiscal Year Funding amount of $10,000,000 for Year 1, subject to the availability of funds. In alignment with current PEPFAR priorities, this NOFO seeks to provide support for concrete efforts that assist stakeholders in CA to lead, manage, coordinate, and implement national HIV responses while sustaining programmatic quality and coverage goals. This NOFO seeks to expand upon previous gains in capacity building with the Executive Secretariat of the Council of Health Ministers of Central America (SECOMISCA), a political and technical entity sanctioned by all Ministries of Health (MOH) in CA and DR to collaborate with the US Government and CDC-CAR to enhance sustainable public health networks in the region. SECOMISCA is the health sector governing body from the Central American Integrative System (SICA) since 1991; with support from the United Nations (UN), SECOMISCA maintains cooperation with other international organizations. This NOFO will continue SECOMISCA’s efforts to expand the capacity of MOH to strategically address the HIV epidemic by supporting sustainable local and national efforts to improve public health epidemiology, surveillance, and laboratory capacity to reach epidemic control in the CAR.

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