Strengthening Public Health Laboratory Systems in the Republic of Cameroon under PEPFAR-Cameroon | CDC RFA PS10 105205CONT16

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The funding opportunity titled "Strengthening Public Health Laboratory Systems in the Republic of Cameroon under PEPFAR-Cameroon" is a continuation award issued by the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) to maintain and extend previously funded work aimed at improving public health laboratory systems in Cameroon. It is tied to the U.S. President's Emergency Plan for AIDS Relief (PEPFAR) platform in Cameroon, which generally supports national efforts to prevent, diagnose, and treat HIV and related conditions, and to strengthen the systems that make those services reliable at scale. This notice is not a new open competition; it is specifically structured to continue funding for recipients that were already awarded under the earlier funding opportunity announcement (FOA) referenced as CDC-RFA-PS10-1052.

Administratively, the opportunity is listed as a continuation (OpportunityCategory: Continuation) and uses a cooperative agreement as the funding instrument. A cooperative agreement usually means CDC expects substantial involvement beyond simply providing funds, such as technical collaboration, joint planning, monitoring, and programmatic guidance throughout implementation. The activity category is health, and it is associated with CFDA number 93.067, which corresponds to CDC cooperative agreement activities that often include public health capacity building. The agency issuing the award is the CDC.

Eligibility is limited in practice: the description states the funds are intended only for grantees previously awarded under the original FOA (CDC-RFA-PS10-1052). While the dataset lists eligible applicants broadly as "Others," the continuation language is the controlling element, meaning new organizations that were not prior awardees under the original FOA should not expect to be eligible for this specific continuation action. The original closing date shown is October 23, 2015, and the record creation date is September 16, 2015, which aligns with how continuation awards are often posted for administrative and tracking purposes rather than to solicit new applications from the general public.

The program purpose, as indicated by the title and description, is to strengthen public health laboratory systems in Cameroon. In practical terms, initiatives under a laboratory systems strengthening scope commonly include improving laboratory quality management systems, expanding or maintaining diagnostic capacity for priority diseases (including HIV-related testing), strengthening specimen referral and transport networks, improving biosafety and biosecurity practices, ensuring reliable supply chain management for reagents and consumables, improving equipment maintenance and calibration systems, building workforce capacity through training and mentorship, and strengthening laboratory information systems and data quality. Because the work is situated under PEPFAR-Cameroon, it is reasonable to interpret the laboratory strengthening as supporting HIV program goals, such as accurate and timely testing for HIV diagnosis, monitoring, and associated opportunistic infections, while also reinforcing broader national laboratory infrastructure that benefits other disease programs.

The listing provides limited details on funding size and number of awards: the award ceiling is shown as 0 and expected awards is blank, which often indicates that a specific ceiling was not published in the summary record or that the continuation amount is determined by prior-year awards, available appropriations, and negotiated workplans rather than a new maximum cap. The key takeaway is that this is a CDC cooperative agreement continuation designed to keep an existing, CDC-supported laboratory systems strengthening effort moving forward in Cameroon under PEPFAR, rather than launching a new round of funding open to first-time applicants.

• The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention in the health sector is offering a public funding opportunity titled "Strengthening Public Health Laboratory Systems in the Republic of Cameroon under PEPFAR-Cameroon" 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 2015-09-16.
• Applicants must submit their applications by 2015-10-23. (Agency may still review applications by suitable applicants for the remaining/unused allocated funding in 2026.)
• Eligible applicants include: Others.

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