Ryan White HIV/AIDS Program (RWHAP) Access, Care, and Engagement Technical Assistance Center (ACE TA) | HRSA 25 047

Opportunity Information: Apply for HRSA 25 047

The Ryan White HIV/AIDS Program (RWHAP) Access, Care, and Engagement Technical Assistance Center (ACE TA Center) funding opportunity (HRSA-25-047) is a discretionary cooperative agreement from the Health Resources and Services Administration (HRSA), specifically through HRSA's HIV/AIDS Bureau (HAB). Its purpose is to fund a single national technical assistance center that helps RWHAP recipients and subrecipients strengthen how they connect people with HIV to health coverage and keep them engaged in HIV care over time. The central idea is that when people better understand their coverage options and how to use the health system, they are more likely to stay in care, maintain coverage, and achieve better health outcomes across the HIV care continuum.

This award emphasizes hands-on, capacity-building technical assistance rather than direct clinical service delivery. The funded organization is expected to work closely with HRSA HAB at the national level, reflecting the cooperative agreement structure where federal staff have substantial involvement in guiding priorities, coordinating work, and ensuring the center's activities align with program goals. The ACE TA Center is positioned to support the RWHAP network in an evolving health insurance and coverage environment by improving health literacy, strengthening enrollment and utilization supports, and helping programs navigate barriers that keep people from getting and keeping coverage.

The opportunity lays out several core goals. First, it aims to maximize engagement in health care among people with HIV by improving health literacy about how to access and stay connected to the health care system. This includes understanding how to interact with clinicians, support service providers, and other practitioners who play a role in HIV care. Second, it seeks to increase awareness and practical understanding among RWHAP recipients, subrecipients, providers, and people with HIV about how to enroll in and use available coverage options, recognizing that coverage pathways and rules can shift over time. Third, it calls for identifying or developing strategies and clear messages that promote equitable access to health care coverage options, with a focus on the real-world staff who often do this work day to day: outreach workers, health educators, case managers, peer navigators, health care navigators, certified application counselors, and other assisters and administrators. Finally, it targets improved outcomes across the HIV care continuum, including a specific emphasis on maximizing health care coverage for people aging with HIV, a group that may face changing eligibility, benefits, and care needs over time.

Eligible applicants are domestic organizations across a wide range of sectors, reflecting the nationwide technical assistance scope. Eligible entities include public and private institutions of higher education, nonprofit organizations (including both 501(c)(3) and non-501(c)(3) nonprofits), and units of government such as state, county, city or township, special district governments, and independent school districts. Tribal governments (federally recognized) and tribal organizations are also eligible. "Domestic" is defined broadly to include the 50 states and the District of Columbia, Puerto Rico, U.S. territories (including Guam, American Samoa, the U.S. Virgin Islands, and the Northern Mariana Islands), and the freely associated states (the Federated States of Micronesia, the Republic of the Marshall Islands, and the Republic of Palau). Individuals are explicitly not eligible to apply under this notice of funding opportunity.

Key administrative details included in the source information are that the agency is HRSA, the funding instrument is a cooperative agreement, the activity category is health, and the CFDA number is 93.917. The opportunity anticipates one award, reinforcing that this will likely be a single, centralized national center. The original application closing date is February 11, 2025, and the posting/creation date is December 6, 2024. The listed award ceiling is shown as 0 in the provided source data, which typically indicates the ceiling was not specified in that field rather than confirming there is no cap, so applicants would need to consult the full NOFO for the actual budget and project period details.

• The Health Resources and Services Administration in the health sector is offering a public funding opportunity titled "Ryan White HIV/AIDS Program (RWHAP) Access, Care, and Engagement Technical Assistance Center (ACE TA)" and is now available to receive applicants.
• Interested and eligible applicants and submit their applications by referencing the CFDA number(s): 93.917.
• This funding opportunity was created on 2024-12-06.
• Applicants must submit their applications by 2025-02-11. (Agency may still review applications by suitable applicants for the remaining/unused allocated funding in 2026.)
• The number of recipients for this funding is limited to 1 candidate(s).
• Eligible applicants include: State governments, County governments, City or township governments, Special district governments, Independent school districts, Native American tribal governments (Federally recognized), 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 that do not have a 501 (c) (3) status with the IRS, other than institutions of higher education, Private institutions of higher education, Others.

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