Strengthening Public Health and the Public Health Laboratory System of Cambodia under the President’s Emergency Plan for AIDS Relief Program under the President’s Emergency Plan for AIDS Relief (PEPFAR | CDC RFA GH13 130504CONT16

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This funding opportunity is a continuation cooperative agreement from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) focused on strengthening public health functions and the public health laboratory system in Cambodia under the President's Emergency Plan for AIDS Relief (PEPFAR). In practical terms, it supports ongoing work that helps Cambodia maintain and improve the systems needed to prevent, detect, diagnose, and respond to health threats, with a strong emphasis on HIV/AIDS-related laboratory and public health capacity that aligns with PEPFAR priorities. Because it is structured as a cooperative agreement, CDC involvement is typically more hands-on than in a standard grant, meaning the agency may collaborate closely with the recipient on technical direction, performance monitoring, and implementation approaches.

A key point of this announcement is that it is not an open competition. The notice explicitly states the award is a continuation of funds intended only for organizations that were previously awarded under the earlier funding opportunity "Strengthening Public Health and the Public Health Laboratory System of Cambodia under PEPFAR," identified as CDC-RFA-GH13-1305. That means eligibility is effectively limited to incumbent grantees that already hold the original award, and the continuation funding is meant to extend or sustain activities that are already underway rather than launch a brand-new project with new partners.

Administratively, the opportunity is listed under Funding Opportunity Number CDC RFA GH13 130504CONT16, categorized as "Continuation," with the activity area labeled "Health." The associated CFDA number is 93.067, which corresponds to CDC global health assistance programming. The eligible applicants field is shown as "Others," but given the continuation-only language, it should be interpreted in the context of continuation funding: the practical eligible pool is the existing awardee(s) from the prior CDC-RFA-GH13-1305 award. The original closing date shown is 2015-11-24, and the record creation date is 2015-09-24, which places this as a time-bound continuation action rather than a new, broadly solicited grant round. The award ceiling is listed as 0 and the expected awards field is blank in the source data, which commonly indicates that the public posting is not intended to disclose a maximum amount or that the continuation amount is determined through internal budgeting and negotiation tied to the existing project period and approved work plan.

From a program perspective, the title points to strengthening Cambodia's public health and laboratory system, which typically includes areas such as improving laboratory quality management systems, enhancing diagnostic testing capacity, strengthening specimen referral and transport networks, supporting surveillance and data systems, training and retaining laboratory and epidemiology workforce, and improving readiness to detect and respond to outbreaks. Under the PEPFAR banner, these system-strengthening activities often support HIV case detection and confirmation, monitoring and evaluation, quality assurance for HIV-related testing, and integration with broader communicable disease control efforts. The continuation framing suggests the work is meant to deepen gains already achieved, keep core functions operating reliably, and maintain the institutional capacity built during the original award period.

Overall, this notice is best read as a CDC administrative action to extend funding for an existing Cambodia-focused PEPFAR public health laboratory strengthening project, limited to prior recipients of the original CDC-RFA-GH13-1305 award, and implemented through a cooperative agreement mechanism that emphasizes ongoing technical collaboration with CDC.

• The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention in the health sector is offering a public funding opportunity titled "Strengthening Public Health and the Public Health Laboratory System of Cambodia under the President’s Emergency Plan for AIDS Relief Program 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 2015-09-24.
• 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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