HRSA issued the funding notice (HRSA-22-030) in January with the closing date for applications April 8, 2022. Funding is estimated to be $1, 750,000 to provide telehealth strategies to help people with HIV.
HRSA will fund one cooperative agreement for up to three years to identify and maximize the use of telehealth for strategies that are most effective in improving linkage to care, retention in care, and health outcomes, including viral suppressions, for people with HIV who receive services through the Ryan White HIV/AIDS Program (RWHAP).
Objectives for the Telehealth Strategies to Maximize HIV Care project are:
- Identify telehealth strategies that are best suited for different RWHAP population
- Increase utilization of effective telehealth modalities and/or strategies within RWHAP
- Increase dissemination of telehealth strategies and tools for uptake in the RWHAP
- Increase the capacity of RWHAP recipients and subrecipients to identify and implement effective telehealth strategies
- Increase equity in HIV care for people that have not yet successfully maintained care or populations that historically experience poor health outcomes
The award recipient will:
- Research and select telehealth strategies that can be used to maximize HIV care in the RWHAP
- Fund, coordinate, provide technical and capacity-building assistance, monitor, and evaluate implementation of telehealth strategies for a minimum of five RWHAP recipients and subrecipients
- Create an inventory of project strategies and tools,
- Disseminate the project’s products through various outlets, ultimately for uptake and replication by RWHAP recipients and subrecipients
- Evaluate the project using an implementation science framework
Eligible applicants can include nonprofits, small businesses, state, county, governments, Native American tribal governments plus others.
Go to https://www.grants.gov.custom/printSynopsisDetails.jsp for the full announcement.