Development of a Laboratory Network and Society to Implement Quality Systems Improvement Programs toward Accreditation and Laboratory Management under the President's Emergency Plan for AIDS Relief (PEPFAR) | CDC RFA GH12 120104CONT16

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This funding opportunity is a continuation cooperative agreement from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) under the President's Emergency Plan for AIDS Relief (PEPFAR). The project focus is the development and strengthening of laboratory networks and a professional laboratory society to carry out quality systems improvement programs that move laboratories toward accreditation and stronger laboratory management. In practical terms, the grant is aimed at improving how clinical and public health laboratories operate day to day: building standardized quality management systems, improving oversight and coordination across multiple labs, and institutionalizing practices that support reliable, accurate, and timely testing. The overall intent is to strengthen laboratory capacity in support of HIV/AIDS and broader public health needs by making quality improvement routine and sustainable, rather than dependent on one-off trainings or short-term interventions.

The award is structured as a cooperative agreement, which typically means CDC expects to have substantial involvement in the work beyond simply providing funds, such as offering technical direction, collaborating on implementation approaches, or helping guide performance monitoring. The activity category is health, and it is listed under CFDA 93.067, a CDC global health assistance program area commonly associated with international HIV/AIDS and related health system strengthening efforts. The opportunity emphasizes quality systems improvement toward accreditation, suggesting alignment with recognized laboratory quality frameworks and stepwise accreditation approaches, and it also highlights laboratory management as a core deliverable, reflecting the reality that sustained quality depends as much on leadership, governance, staffing, documentation, procurement, and continuous improvement practices as it does on technical bench skills.

A key limiting feature of this announcement is that it is continuation funding only. It is explicitly intended for organizations that were previously awarded under the earlier funding announcement CDC-RFA-GH12-1201. That means this is not an open competition for new applicants; instead, it is designed to extend or continue existing workplans, partnerships, and implementation structures already established under the prior award. The eligible applicants field is broadly labeled as "Others," but the description makes clear that eligibility is effectively restricted to prior grantees from the referenced funding opportunity. This type of continuation announcement is commonly used to maintain momentum in multi-year capacity-building efforts where program gains depend on consistent support over time.

Administratively, the opportunity is identified as CDC RFA GH12 120104CONT16, with a creation date of 2015-09-22 and an original closing date of 2015-11-24. The award ceiling is listed as 0, which usually indicates that a specific maximum award amount was not published in the summary record or that funding levels are determined by CDC based on appropriations, program needs, and approved continuation applications rather than a fixed cap disclosed in the notice. The expected number of awards is not specified in the provided source data, which is also consistent with continuation funding where the number of awards generally corresponds to the number of existing, eligible grantees being continued.

In short, this CDC PEPFAR continuation opportunity supports ongoing efforts to strengthen laboratory systems through quality management and accreditation-oriented improvements, implemented through coordinated laboratory networks and professional society structures. It is intended to sustain and expand previously funded work rather than launch new projects, ensuring that prior investments in laboratory quality systems and management translate into lasting, system-level improvements.

• The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention in the health sector is offering a public funding opportunity titled "Development of a Laboratory Network and Society to Implement Quality Systems Improvement Programs toward Accreditation and Laboratory Management under the President's Emergency Plan for AIDS Relief (PEPFAR)" 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 2015-09-22.
• Applicants must submit their applications by 2015-11-24. (Agency may still review applications by suitable applicants for the remaining/unused allocated funding in 2026.)
• Eligible applicants include: Others.

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