The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention is soliciting proposals for its Enhancing STI and Sexual Health Clinic Infrastructure to provide quality comprehensive sexual health services and increase access to quality, stigma-free STI care and comprehensive sexual health services, especially among applicant-identified priority populations.
Donor Name: Centers for Disease Control and Prevention
State: All States
County: All Counties
U.S. Territories: Commonwealth of Puerto Rico, U.S. Virgin Islands, Commonwealth of Northern Mariana Islands, American Samoa, Guam, Federated States of Micronesia, Republic of the Marshall Islands, and Republic of Palau
Type of Grant: Grant
Deadline: 06/05/2023
Size of the Grant: $50,000,000
Grant Duration: 5 years
Details:
The purpose of this NOFO is to strengthen clinic infrastructure and expand access to comprehensive sexual health services in high burden and underserved areas. ESSHCI supports clinics to:
- foster community engagement and strategic partnerships to support expansion of sexual health services,
- strengthen clinic infrastructure and provision of sexual health services, and
- conduct short-term activities to expand access to STI prevention and other sexual health services supporting a syndemic approach.
Outcomes
Recipients must achieve the following outcomes by the end of the period of performance:
- increased community involvement in clinic-level planning for provision of comprehensive sexual health services,
- increased engagement with public health partners addressing the STI epidemic,
- increased clinic capacity to provide quality comprehensive sexual health services,
- increased access to quality, stigma-free STI care and comprehensive sexual health services, especially among priority populations affected by STIs,
- improved patient clinic experience,
- increased identification of new STIs by clinics, and
- increased linkage to public health partners for prevention and care services for cooccurring conditions.
Strategies and Activities
- Strategy A: Foster community engagement and partnerships (Required strategy – Year 1)
- A1: Build community connections to identify, reach, and involve priority populations affected by STIs and mobilize public health partners to actively address STI epidemic
- A2: Develop an actionable, community-informed, clinic-level plan to increase access to quality comprehensive sexual health services tailored to the affected community
- Strategy B: Strengthen clinic infrastructure and provision of comprehensive sexual health services (Required strategy – Years 1-5)
- B1: Conduct clinic infrastructure assessment to document available comprehensive sexual health services and identify and address gaps
- B2: Implement clinic-level plan to increase access to sexual health services
- B3: Implement additional evidence based approaches to enhance clinic sexual health services – B4: Assess and improve patient clinic experience and satisfaction
- Strategy C: Expand access to STI prevention & other sexual health services supporting a syndemic approach (Optional strategy – Years 1-5)
- C1: Implement or expand alternative models of comprehensive sexual health service delivery –
- C2: Improve access to quality sexual health services based on local activity of interest
- C3: Implement and evaluate demonstration projects that address emerging and unaddressed STI/HIV/viral hepatitis issues
Target Populations
This NOFO serves communities with high STI burden and unmet need for STI clinical services. To address inequities and service gaps, applicants are expected to describe how the proposed service area is either high burden or medically underserved as indicated by:
- (Required): the proposed service area’s population in total and by age, gender, race/ethnicity, as well as the proportion living under the federal poverty level;
- (Required): the number of cases and rates of HIV, gonorrhea, chlamydia, and primary and secondary (P&S) syphilis by gender, for the two most recent years of available data
- (Required): the current availability of STI and sexual health care services in the proposed service area; (Optional but recommended): the number of male HIV, gonorrhea, chlamydia, and P&S syphilis cases by sex of sex partners;
- (Optional but recommended): the number of urethral gonorrhea cases and number of P&S syphilis diagnoses for the provided time period and the proportion of these cases diagnosed in 1) emergency rooms/urgent cares; 2) primary care clinics; 3) STI/family planning clinics; or 4) other clinics.
Funding Information
Estimated Total Funding: $50,000,000
Period of Performance
Total Period of Performance Length: 5 year(s)
Eligibility Criteria
- State governments
- County governments
- City or township governments
- Special district governments
- Independent school districts
- Public and State controlled institutions of higher education
- Native American tribal governments (Federally recognized)
- Public housing authorities/Indian housing authorities
- Native American tribal organizations (other than Federally recognized tribal governments)
- Nonprofits having a 501(c)(3) status with the IRS, other than institutions of higher education
- Nonprofits without 501(c)(3) status with the IRS, other than institutions of higher education
- Private institutions of higher education
Additional Eligibility Category
- Government Organizations:
- State governments or their bona fide agents (includes the District of Columbia)
- Local governments or their bona fide agents
- Territorial governments or their bona fide agents in the Commonwealth of Puerto Rico, the Virgin Islands, the Commonwealth of the Northern Marianna Islands, American Samoa, Guam, the Federated States of Micronesia, the Republic of the Marshall Islands, and the Republic of Palau
- State controlled institutions of higher education American Indian or Alaska Native tribal governments (federally recognized or state-recognized)
- Non-government Organizations
- American Indian or Alaska native tribally designated organizations
For more information, visit Grants.gov.
