Supporting the implementation and capacity building of HIV/AIDS prevention interventions for youth using evidence- based approaches in South Africa under the President's Emergency Plan for AIDS Relief (PEPFAR)

 

In South Africa HIV is a generalized epidemic; however incidence among youth (age 15 – 24 years) continues to remain high. Many young people are growing up in poverty stricken circumstances and are not able to ‘see’ a positive future for themselves, reduce sexual risk behavior and make safer choices. In view of the aforementioned, there is a need to – - Reduce sexual risk behavior among adolescent girls and boys by giving parents/guardians tools to facilitate and promote primary HIV prevention to their pre-adolescent children including utilizing preventative services and products such as voluntary medical male circumcision (VMMC), HIV testing and counselling (HTC), and condoms; - Enhance the knowledge and skills of parents/guardians to promote positive social norms that enhance HIV prevention and nurture positive gender relations; - Provide parents/guardians with necessary knowledge and skills to identify signs and symptoms of child sexual abuse and gender-based violence; and exercise means to address it; - Support parents/guardians in creating a supportive environment that increases adolescents’ self-efficacy to delay sexual debut, prevent sexually transmitted infections (STIs) and unintended pregnancies; - Capacitate young people to meet their developmental tasks namely becoming more individual, establishing identity and self-acceptance, exploring their adult identity, and determining their peer affiliation; and - Capacitate youth to imagine a positive future and enable them to identify and discuss how current risk behaviors can be a barrier to successful adulthood are how to reduce sexual risk behaviors and make safer choices. The goal and objectives of the program in South Africa:

Deleted 05/15/2013 (Archived.) CDC-RFA-GH13-1341 Agency: Department of Health and Human Services
Office: CENTERS FOR DISEASE CONTROL Cooperative Agreement 3 ELIGIBILITY INFORMATION Eligible Applicants Eligible applicants that can apply for this funding opportunity are listed below: • Nonprofit with 501C3 IRS status (other than institution of higher education) • Nonprofit without 501C3 IRS status (other than institution of higher education) • For-profit organizations (other than small business) • Small, minority, and women-owned businesses • Universities • Colleges • Research institutions • Hospitals • Community-based organizations • Faith-based organizations • Federally recognized or state-recognized American Indian/Alaska Native tribal governments • American Indian/Alaska native tribally designated organizations • Alaska Native health corporations • Urban Indian health organizations • Tribal epidemiology centers • State and local governments or their Bona Fide Agents (this includes the District of Columbia, 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) • Political subdivisions of States (in consultation with States) • Non-domestic (non-U.S.) entity A Bona Fide Agent is an agency/organization identified by the state as eligible to submit an application under the state eligibility in lieu of a state application. If applying as a bona fide agent of a state or local government, a legal, binding agreement from the state or local government as documentation of the status is required. Attach with “Other Attachment Forms” when submitting via www.grants.gov. 04/15/2013 This program does not have cost sharing or matching requirements. CDC
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Phone 770-488-2700 N/A pgotim@cdc.gov $30,000,000.00 Awards up to $6,000,000.00