AFRO-NETS> Request for Application National Center for Infectious Diseases ASPH

[Andrea Egan <egana@mail.nih.gov>]

Request for Application National Center for Infectious Diseases ASPH
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US Center for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC)

Cooperative Agreement Global Malaria Prevention and Control

AVAILABLE FUNDING: 
Approximately US$ 2,000,000 is available in FY2001 to fund approxi-
mately 4 to 6 awards, ranging from US$ 300,000 to US$ 500,000, and 
averaging US$ 400,000. It is expected that the awards will begin on 
or about September 30, 2001, and will be made for a 12-month budget 
period within a project period of up to three years. Funding esti-
mates may change.

The purpose of the program is to expand the involvement of schools of 
public health in the Global Roll Back Malaria (RBM) effort and to 
foster endemic-country action to implement the control strategies of: 
1) reducing malaria transmission with insecticide-treated nets and 
   other appropriate methods; 
2) prompt and effective treatment of malaria illness, particularly in 
   young children; 
3) management of malaria in pregnant women with effective preventive 
   intermittent treatment or chemoprophylaxis, and 
4) relevant ancillary activities (e.g., baseline evaluation, strategy 
   development, training, monitoring and evaluation, focused operations 
   research to further the program implementation).

1. Recipient Activities 
The applicant and their partner(s) in the malaria-endemic country 
will be expected to: 
a. Enhance local capacity for implementing methods that will reduce 
malaria transmission and the morbidity and mortality from malaria in-
fection in the partner malaria-endemic country. Applicants, in col-
laboration with the partner country, should analyze the current in-
frastructure for Roll Back Malaria implementation in the partner 
country and propose activities that address the priority needs. Some 
of these activities may have been addressed or are currently being 
addressed by the country or other partner organizations, in which 
case, the applicant should not propose to duplicate existing efforts. 
Priority program areas are briefly described below and are examples 
of activities that applicants may consider. 

b. Participate in a Malaria Prevention and Control Collaboration 
Group to determine common needs and resources, identify issues that 
can be addressed jointly, and develop methods to serve as a collec-
tive resource on program implementation for others. Participation 
will include 
(1) sending representative(s) to an annual meeting of the group, 
(2) preparing requested background materials for the meetings (e.g., 
    reports on field activities in malaria-endemic countries and possible 
    review of specific approaches for RBM interventions or monitoring and 
    evaluation), 
(3) adopting consensus approaches on RBM activities between countries 
    within a region or with similar malaria endemicity and local re-
    sources, and 
(4) participate in preparation of report on proceedings of Collabora-
    tion Group meetings.

2. CDC Activities: 
a. Provide consultation and assistance on methods for enhancing local 
capacity to increase use of insecticide treated bed nets, treatment 
of malaria, or prevention of malaria in pregnancy. 
b. Provide consultation and assistance as needed to further the ef-
forts of cooperative agreement recipients and their country partners 
in RBM planning and assessment. 
c. Provide consultation and assistance for developing operations re-
search study designs that may be carried out by one or more coopera-
tive agreement recipients. 
d. Assist in the development of operations research protocols for IRB 
review by all cooperating institutions participating in the research 
project. The CDC IRB will review and approve the protocol initially 
and on at least an annual basis until the research project is com-
pleted. 
e. Provide consultation and assistance with training curricula and 
materials as necessary and appropriate for in-country training pro-
grams. 
f. Assist the Malaria Prevention and Control Collaboration Group, in-
cluding 
(1) form a steering committee, 
(2) convene meetings, 
(3) assist with developing agendas, and 
(4) assist with preparing and distributing meeting reports.

EXPECTED BENEFITS: 
Recipients will engage in public health intervention with foreign 
governments and non-governmental organizations. They will participate 
in the transfer of research to public health practice, develop oppor-
tunities for schools of public health to participate in practical ex-
periences in international health, and organizations will aggregate 
their strengths to establish proven malaria prevention methods to 
achieve the objectives of the Roll Back Malaria movement and contrib-
ute to the improvement of public health infrastructure in malaria-
endemic countries.

SPECIAL REQUIREMENTS: 
1. Proposed activities should be in a sub-Saharan African country 
with endemic Plasmodium falciparum malaria. 
2. Malaria in the partner malaria-endemic country should be an impor-
tant cause of morbidity and mortality across the country. 
3. Gaps identified in malaria prevention and control implementation 
in the proposed partner country should be addressed. 
4. Applicant should have an existing collaboration with the partner 
organization in the partner country. 
5. Formal letters of support should be provided for this application 
from appropriate groups within the malaria-endemic country to demon-
strate the appropriate and necessary collaborative arrangement for 
malaria prevention and control program support. 
6. U.S.-based and malaria-endemic country partners should have col-
laboratively reviewed the priority needs for malaria in the malaria-
endemic country. 
7. Plans proposed should be consistent with malaria prevention best 
practices and RBM principles. 
8. Planned capacity building activities should relate to improvements 
that will benefit RBM activities in the partner country, if capacity 
building for public health in malaria is proposed. 
9. Operations research should contribute to informing and enhancing 
RBM activities in the partner country, if operations research activi-
ties are proposed. 
10. A detailed plan for monitoring the implementation of the activi-
ties and evaluating the extent to which the proposed activities 
strengthen local and national capacity for malaria prevention and 
control should be included. The monitoring and evaluation plan should 
build on existing monitoring and evaluation systems in the project 
area and measure progress towards RBM objectives.

CONTACT PERSON:
Craig Leutzinger
Tel: +1-770-488-7768
mailto:cleutzinger@cdc.gov
or
Rick Steketee, MD
Tel: +1-770-488-7760
mailto:rsteketee@cdc.gov

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Andrea Egan, PhD
Coordinator
Multilateral Initiative on Malaria
Fogarty International Center
National Institutes of Health
31 Center Drive MSC 2220
Building 31, Room B2C39
Bethesda, MD 20892, USA
Tel: +1-301-402-6680
Fax: +1-301-402-2056
mailto:egana@mail.nih.gov
http://mim.nih.gov

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