Partnering with Ho Chi Minh City Pasteur Institute (PI) for Continued Capacity Strengthening to Prevent, Detect, Monitor, and Respond to the HIV/AIDS Epidemic in Vietnam 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 $400,000 for Year 1, subject to the availability of funds.As the regional public health institution for Vietnam’s Southern provinces, Pasteur Institute (PI) is mandated to provide technical assistance (TA) to government health facilities on key foundational public health systems to detect, monitor, and respond to HIV/AIDS, other infectious diseases, and other public health conditions. This NOFO will continue to support PI in its role, focusing on moving from an HIV case reporting system (HCRS) to a case-based surveillance system; improving data triangulation, analysis, and interpretation for the national HIV response; and improving the quality of the National Sentinel Surveillance (HSS/HSS+). By the end of the project, the goal is to see the Emergency Operations Center (EOC) operating at its maximal capacity to promote timely programmatic decision-making as well as having established a successful case-based surveillance system. On the laboratory side, the roll out of HIV recency testing nationwide and laboratory quality management system (QMS) will continue through PI TA and training efforts. The ultimate goal is to have recency testing integrated in the routine HIV testing algorithm, as well as ensuring labs are providing quality recency testing. Finally, QMS at site-level labs will be maintained sustainably, ensuring high quality testing and prompt HIV diagnosis contributing to more effective treatment and prevention services, all of which will move Vietnam closer to its HIV epidemic control goals and an end to AIDS by 2030.

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