Technical Assistance for Strengthening of Blood Transfusion Services and Increasing Access to Safe Blood in India under the President’s Emergency Plan for AIDS Relief (PEPFAR) India | CDC RFA GH13 136004CONT17

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This grant opportunity, titled "Technical Assistance for Strengthening of Blood Transfusion Services and Increasing Access to Safe Blood in India under the President's Emergency Plan for AIDS Relief (PEPFAR) India," is a U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) cooperative agreement focused on improving the quality, safety, and accessibility of blood transfusion services in India as part of PEPFAR-supported public health work. The core purpose is to provide technical assistance that strengthens the systems and practices that make blood transfusion safer, more reliable, and more available, with an emphasis on reducing risks associated with HIV and other transfusion-transmitted infections while improving overall service delivery.

The listing is explicitly a continuation award (Opportunity Category: Continuation; Funding Opportunity Number: CDC RFA GH13 136004CONT17). That means it is not an open competition for new applicants. Instead, the funding is reserved only for organizations that were previously funded under the earlier CDC announcement CDC-RFA-GH13-1360, which covered the same program area. In practical terms, this continuation structure is meant to sustain and build on existing investments, maintain momentum in ongoing activities, and avoid disruptions to multi-year technical assistance, capacity building, and coordination work that typically cannot be completed within a single budget period.

The administering agency is the CDC, specifically within the Center for Global Health (CGH), and the program is categorized under health activities with CFDA number 93.067. The instrument type is a cooperative agreement, which generally indicates substantial involvement by the CDC during implementation. Compared with a standard grant, this typically means closer collaboration on work planning, technical approaches, performance monitoring, and alignment with national and PEPFAR priorities, especially where the work intersects with national blood systems, quality management, surveillance, and program improvement.

The opportunity record shows an original closing date of 2016-11-29 and a creation date of 2016-09-11, reflecting the administrative window for processing the continuation action rather than a broad solicitation. The "Award Ceiling: 0" entry is a common way some federal listings represent that a fixed ceiling is not being publicly competed or is not specified in the synopsis, particularly for continuation actions where amounts are determined by prior awards, incremental funding decisions, and approved work plans. The eligible applicants field is listed as "Others," but the description makes clear that eligibility is effectively limited to the prior grantees under the predecessor funding announcement.

In terms of what the work is about, the technical assistance focus implies support for strengthening blood transfusion services through improvements such as better quality systems, safer donor recruitment and retention practices, stronger screening and testing processes, standardized operating procedures, staff training and competency systems, hemovigilance and adverse event monitoring, data and information systems for supply and demand management, and coordination mechanisms that help ensure blood is available when and where it is needed. Because this is framed under PEPFAR, the public health rationale is closely tied to preventing HIV transmission risks and supporting broader patient safety goals, while integrating with India-based institutions responsible for blood safety and transfusion services.

Overall, this opportunity is best understood as a targeted continuation of CDC/PEPFAR support to maintain ongoing, collaborative technical assistance efforts aimed at strengthening India’s blood transfusion infrastructure and increasing access to safe blood, rather than as a new, publicly open grant competition.

• The Centers for Disease Control - CGH in the health sector is offering a public funding opportunity titled "Technical Assistance for Strengthening of Blood Transfusion Services and Increasing Access to Safe Blood in India under the President’s Emergency Plan for AIDS Relief (PEPFAR) India" 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 2016-09-11.
• Applicants must submit their applications by 2016-11-29. (Agency may still review applications by suitable applicants for the remaining/unused allocated funding in 2026.)
• Eligible applicants include: Others.

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