Voluntary Male Circumcision as part of the national Program and the Combination Prevention project in Botswana under the President’s Emergency Plan for AIDs Relief | CDC RFA GH15 150602CONT16

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This grant opportunity is a continuation funding notice from the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), specifically the CDC Division of Global HIV/AIDS (DGHA) in Botswana, under the President's Emergency Plan for AIDS Relief (PEPFAR). The focus is voluntary male circumcision (VMC) as part of Botswana's national HIV prevention program and a broader "combination prevention" approach. In practical terms, the award supports implementation activities that use VMC as a proven biomedical intervention to reduce the risk of female-to-male HIV transmission, integrated alongside other prevention services typically delivered through PEPFAR-supported platforms.

The opportunity is labeled as a continuation (Funding Opportunity Number: CDC RFA GH15 150602CONT16), meaning it is not an open competitive solicitation for new organizations. Funding is intended only for recipients that were previously awarded under the earlier related announcement, CDC-RFA-GH15-1506. Because of that, the listing is best understood as an administrative vehicle to extend or continue an existing cooperative agreement rather than a chance for new applicants to enter the program. The "Eligible Applicants" field is listed as "Others," but the narrative makes clear eligibility is effectively restricted to prior grantees from the original award.

The mechanism is a cooperative agreement, which generally indicates substantial involvement by CDC in program direction, technical support, monitoring, and collaboration during implementation. The activity category is health, and the CFDA number is 93.067, which corresponds to CDC HIV-related assistance. The opportunity anticipates a single award (Expected Awards: 1), reinforcing that this is designed to continue one ongoing project rather than fund multiple new implementers. The posted award ceiling is listed as 0, which often appears in continuation postings where the funding level is determined through internal budgeting and the recipient's approved continuation application or annual workplan rather than a publicly stated maximum amount.

Programmatically, the work supported under this continuation would typically include service delivery elements needed to sustain and scale VMC within Botswana's national prevention strategy. That usually involves clinical service provision for circumcision, demand creation and community outreach so eligible men and adolescents are aware of and can access services, safety and quality assurance to maintain clinical standards, supply chain and commodity management for surgical and infection prevention materials, and data collection and reporting to track outputs and outcomes required by PEPFAR and the Government of Botswana. Because the opportunity explicitly situates VMC within "combination prevention," it also implies linkages with other HIV prevention and testing services, such as HIV counseling and testing, risk reduction counseling, condom promotion, linkage to treatment for those who test positive, and referral pathways for sexually transmitted infection screening and treatment, all coordinated within national guidelines.

Key administrative details in the source data place the opportunity in late 2015, with a creation date of 2015-10-06 and an original closing date of 2015-12-08. The continuation framing indicates the closing date mainly applied to the incumbent recipient's continuation submission requirements rather than a general public application deadline. Overall, the notice signals CDC's intent to maintain continuity of an existing PEPFAR-supported VMC program in Botswana, leveraging an established implementer and cooperative agreement structure to keep services running and aligned with national program priorities and CDC technical oversight.

• The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention in the health sector is offering a public funding opportunity titled "Voluntary Male Circumcision as part of the national Program and the Combination Prevention project in Botswana under the President’s Emergency Plan for AIDs Relief" and is now available to receive applicants.
• Interested and eligible applicants and submit their applications by referencing the CFDA number(s): 93.067.
• This funding opportunity was created on 2015-10-06.
• Applicants must submit their applications by 2015-12-08. (Agency may still review applications by suitable applicants for the remaining/unused allocated funding in 2026.)
• The number of recipients for this funding is limited to 1 candidate(s).
• Eligible applicants include: Others.

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