Technical Assistance to Support AIDS Directors and HIV Prevention Program Managers in the 50 States, District of Columbia, the Commonwealth of Puerto Rico, the US Virgin Islands, and the Pacific Islands | CDC RFA PS14 140503CONT16

Opportunity Information: Apply for CDC RFA PS14 140503CONT16

This funding opportunity, titled "Technical Assistance to Support AIDS Directors and HIV Prevention Program Managers in the 50 States, District of Columbia, the Commonwealth of Puerto Rico, the US Virgin Islands, and the Pacific Islands," is a Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) cooperative agreement focused on strengthening HIV prevention leadership and program implementation across US jurisdictions. It sits within the CDCs National Center for HIV/AIDS, Viral Hepatitis, STD, and TB Prevention and is categorized as a health-related award intended to sustain and support jurisdiction-level HIV prevention efforts by providing structured technical assistance to the officials responsible for planning, managing, and improving HIV prevention programs.

A key point is that this is not an open competition. The opportunity is explicitly a continuation award (OpportunityCategory: Continuation) tied to an earlier CDC funding announcement, CDC-RFA-PS14-1405. That means only organizations that were previously funded under the original PS14-1405 announcement are eligible for these continuation funds. In practice, continuation opportunities like this are designed to maintain ongoing work, retain established capacity, and avoid disruptions in technical assistance services that jurisdictions rely on for consistent program performance and coordination.

The program scope is national in reach and includes all 50 states plus the District of Columbia, the Commonwealth of Puerto Rico, the US Virgin Islands, and the Pacific Islands. The emphasis on AIDS Directors and HIV Prevention Program Managers signals that the supported activities are geared toward leadership and operational decision-makers in state and territorial health departments or similar public health authorities. The overall intent is to ensure these leaders have access to expert support, guidance, tools, and capacity-building resources that help them run effective HIV prevention programs, align with CDC guidance, and respond to changing epidemiology and prevention priorities.

The funding mechanism is a cooperative agreement, which typically indicates substantial federal involvement compared to a standard grant. Under a cooperative agreement, CDC generally remains more engaged in the work through collaboration, shared planning, ongoing communication, and input on technical priorities or deliverables. For an initiative built around technical assistance, this structure makes sense because it supports continuous coordination between CDC and the funded entity to ensure the assistance being delivered matches national strategies, evidence-based practices, and current program needs across jurisdictions.

The opportunity lists an expected 50 awards, suggesting that multiple recipients or components may be funded to cover the breadth of jurisdictions and the range of technical assistance functions required. The award ceiling is shown as 0, which often reflects that a fixed maximum was not published in the summary data, that amounts vary by recipient, or that the ceiling is defined elsewhere in the full continuation documentation rather than in the public-facing synopsis. The CFDA number associated with the opportunity is 93.939, which is a federal assistance listing used for tracking and reporting.

Administratively, the opportunity is issued by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, with an original closing date of 2015-12-09 and a creation date of 2015-10-09. The eligible applicant category is listed as "Others," but the narrative makes the real eligibility requirement clear: it is restricted to prior awardees under the referenced CDC-RFA-PS14-1405. In other words, new applicants without that prior award history would not be able to apply for or receive funding under this continuation announcement.

Taken together, this continuation cooperative agreement is best understood as a mechanism CDC uses to keep an established technical assistance infrastructure in place for HIV prevention leadership nationwide. Rather than funding direct service delivery in one location, it supports the backbone functions that help state, territorial, and island jurisdictions plan, manage, and improve HIV prevention programs through ongoing expert assistance, coordination, and capacity building aligned with CDC prevention priorities.

• The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention in the health sector is offering a public funding opportunity titled "Technical Assistance to Support AIDS Directors and HIV Prevention Program Managers in the 50 States, District of Columbia, the Commonwealth of Puerto Rico, the US Virgin Islands, and the Pacific Islands" and is now available to receive applicants.
• Interested and eligible applicants and submit their applications by referencing the CFDA number(s): 93.939.
• This funding opportunity was created on 2015-10-09.
• Applicants must submit their applications by 2015-12-09. (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 50 candidate(s).
• Eligible applicants include: Others.

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