Opportunity Information: Apply for CDC RFA GH17 1716
This grant opportunity, titled "Supporting the Safe, Adequate and Reliable Supply of Blood and Blood Products through the Malawi Blood Transfusion Service and its Support to Hospitals throughout Malawi under PEPFAR," is a CDC-funded cooperative agreement designed to strengthen Malawi's national blood system over the 2017 to 2021 project period. The central goal is to help the Malawi Blood Transfusion Service (MBTS) fully deliver on its national mandate: ensuring that every hospital in Malawi has access to enough safe blood and blood products to meet patient needs. The opportunity is positioned within the broader public health and PEPFAR context, recognizing that safe transfusion services are essential for saving lives across many conditions, including severe anemia, obstetric emergencies, trauma, pediatric illness, and complications that can affect people living with or vulnerable to HIV.
A major emphasis of the project is expanding the countrywide availability of safe blood. Specifically, MBTS is expected to scale up blood supply operations so the national system moves from meeting about 55 percent of Malawi's need in 2015 to meeting about 95 percent of the need by 2021. To reach that target, the work centers on strengthening blood donor recruitment and retention, with a clear preference for voluntary, returning donors. The grant anticipates structured donor mobilization planning, outreach strategies that increase the number of eligible donors, and practical approaches that keep donors coming back, since repeat voluntary donors are typically associated with a safer and more reliable supply.
In addition to increasing supply, the opportunity prioritizes the safety and quality of transfusion services in hospitals. MBTS is expected to focus heavily on improving quality and safe practices within hospital blood banks (HBBs), which are the points where blood is stored, issued, and transfused to patients. Part of that effort involves infrastructure renovations that are necessary for hospitals to deliver higher-quality blood bank services. While the notice does not list specific construction items, the intent is to address facility-level gaps that can undermine proper storage, handling, documentation, and overall compliance with good blood bank practice.
Training and workforce development are another core pillar of the award. The grant supports clinical training for clinicians and nurses on the safe and appropriate use of blood and blood products, which typically includes when transfusion is indicated, how to minimize unnecessary transfusions, how to monitor patients during transfusion, and how to recognize and respond to transfusion reactions. Alongside clinical training, the opportunity funds training for laboratory personnel in essential transfusion medicine practices, including safe transfusion principles, blood screening, blood typing and cross-matching, and routine quality assurance procedures. This lab-focused support is meant to reduce preventable errors, standardize testing and compatibility practices across sites, and strengthen patient safety.
Finally, the grant is structured to strengthen national quality systems and push toward international standards. A specific activity is improving the implementation of a quality assurance program with the explicit aim of achieving international accreditation. In practical terms, this points to building consistent quality management practices across MBTS and supported hospital blood bank operations, including documentation systems, standard operating procedures, internal audits, corrective and preventive actions, staff competency assessments, and continuous improvement processes. The larger objective is not only to increase the volume of blood available, but to ensure that blood and blood products are reliably safe, correctly tested, properly matched, and delivered through a system that can demonstrate measurable quality over time.
From an administrative standpoint, this is a discretionary funding opportunity issued by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), Center for Global Health (CGH), using a cooperative agreement mechanism, which usually means substantial involvement and technical partnership with CDC during implementation. The funding opportunity number is CDC RFA GH17 1716, under CFDA 93.067. The opportunity anticipated a single award (ExpectedAwards: 1) with an award ceiling of $1,500,000. The original closing date for applications was 2016-10-23, and the funding notice was created on 2016-08-24. Eligibility is listed broadly as "Others," but the described implementer and focal institution for the work is the Malawi Blood Transfusion Service (MBTS), reflecting the intent to support the national entity responsible for blood services while extending improvements across hospitals nationwide.Apply for CDC RFA GH17 1716
- The Centers for Disease Control - CGH in the health sector is offering a public funding opportunity titled "Supporting the Safe, Adequate and Reliable Supply of Blood and Blood Products through the Malawi Blood Transfusion Service and its Support to Hospitals throughout Malawi 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 2016-08-24.
- Applicants must submit their applications by 2016-10-23. (Agency may still review applications by suitable applicants for the remaining/unused allocated funding in 2026.)
- Each selected applicant is eligible to receive up to $1,500,000.00 in funding.
- The number of recipients for this funding is limited to 1 candidate(s).
- Eligible applicants include: Others.
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