Establishment of a Strategic Partnership to Strengthen COMISCA in the Central America region under PEPFAR | CDC RFA GH15 150902CONT16

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The funding opportunity titled "Establishment of a Strategic Partnership to Strengthen COMISCA in the Central America region under PEPFAR" is a continuation cooperative agreement issued by the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC). It sits within the health funding activity category and is linked to CFDA 93.067, which is commonly associated with global HIV/AIDS and related public health work supported under the U.S. President's Emergency Plan for AIDS Relief (PEPFAR). The opportunity number is CDC RFA GH15 150902CONT16, and the record shows an original closing date of November 25, 2015, with a creation date of September 18, 2015.

This announcement is not a new, open competition. It is explicitly structured as continuation funding, meaning the CDC intended to provide additional funding to support ongoing activities that were started under a prior award. The notice specifies that the continuation funds are intended only for grantees previously awarded under CDC-RFA-GH15-1509, which carried the same core title and purpose. In practical terms, that restricts eligibility to organizations that already received the original award under the earlier funding opportunity and are continuing approved workplans and objectives, rather than inviting new applicants.

The core purpose is to establish and/or sustain a strategic partnership to strengthen COMISCA in Central America under the PEPFAR framework. COMISCA refers to the Council of Ministers of Health of Central America, a regional body that helps coordinate health policy, planning, and collaboration across Central American countries. While the source text does not list detailed programmatic activities, the framing strongly implies support for regional coordination and institutional strengthening in service of public health goals aligned with PEPFAR priorities. In many CDC cooperative agreements of this type, that kind of strengthening can include improving regional governance and coordination mechanisms, enhancing technical capacity, supporting harmonized strategies and guidelines, improving data use and surveillance or monitoring systems, and facilitating cross-country collaboration so that countries can respond more consistently and effectively to HIV-related and broader public health challenges.

The funding instrument type is a cooperative agreement, which typically indicates a more hands-on partnership model than a standard grant. Under a cooperative agreement, the CDC usually has substantial programmatic involvement, such as collaborating on technical approaches, reviewing workplans, providing guidance, and aligning activities with CDC and PEPFAR priorities. This is consistent with the idea of building a strategic partnership with a regional health governance entity where ongoing coordination and technical input are central to achieving results.

The announcement metadata shows an award ceiling listed as 0 and expected awards not specified, which often occurs in continuation notices or database entries where the public synopsis is minimal and the funding levels are handled through continuation increments, approved budgets, or internal award modifications rather than through a newly competed award with a stated maximum. The eligible applicants field is broadly labeled as "Others" in the source data, but the narrative restriction to prior awardees effectively narrows eligibility regardless of that generalized category label.

In summary, this opportunity is best understood as a CDC continuation cooperative agreement under PEPFAR to maintain and advance previously funded work aimed at strengthening COMISCA's regional capacity and partnership role in Central America. It is designed to extend and support an existing CDC-supported initiative rather than launch a new competitive grant round, and only prior recipients under the earlier CDC-RFA-GH15-1509 announcement were intended to receive these continuation funds.

• The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention in the health sector is offering a public funding opportunity titled "Establishment of a Strategic Partnership to Strengthen COMISCA in the Central America region under 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 2015-09-18.
• Applicants must submit their applications by 2015-11-25. (Agency may still review applications by suitable applicants for the remaining/unused allocated funding in 2026.)
• Eligible applicants include: Others.

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