Strengthening the Africa Society for Blood Transfusion (AfSBT) to Develop Regional Standards and Provide Accreditation and Quality Management Services to National Blood Services in Africa under the President's Emergency Plan for AIDS Relief (PEPFAR) — Centers for Disease Control and Prevention funding opportunity
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Strengthening the Africa Society for Blood Transfusion (AfSBT) to Develop Regional Standards and Provide Accreditation and Quality Management Services to National Blood Services in Africa under the President's Emergency Plan for AIDS Relief (PEPFAR)

The program goal and objectives relevant to this funding opportunity announcement (FOA) are to strengthen the Africa Society for Blood Transfusion’s ability to serve as a regional center of excellence and provider of a s...

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Award $0–$500k Deadline 4297 days ago Location Alabama Type grant Level Federal Closed posted Sep 23, 2014
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  • Who can apply: Federal-level applicants (see eligibility for details).
  • Funding amount: up to $500,000.
  • Next deadline: November 13, 2014.
  • Issued by: Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.
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  • Eligible applicants: see the Eligibility tab for the criteria from the official announcement.
  • Where: Alabama, Alaska, Arizona, Arkansas, California, Colorado, Connecticut, Delaware, Florida, Georgia, Hawaii, Idaho, Illinois, Indiana, Iowa, Kansas, Kentucky, Louisiana, Maine, Maryland, Massachusetts, Michigan, Minnesota, Mississippi, Missouri, Montana, Nebraska, Nevada, New Hampshire, New Jersey, New Mexico, New York, North Carolina, North Dakota, Ohio, Oklahoma, Oregon, Pennsylvania, Rhode Island, South Carolina, South Dakota, Tennessee, Texas, Utah, Vermont, Virginia, Washington, West Virginia, Wisconsin, Wyoming, District of Columbia.
  • Award: $0–$500k. Total program pool: $0.
  • Matching funds: not required.
  • Deadline type: Fixed.

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Award amount
$0–$500k
Deadline
4297 days ago
Nov 13, 2014
Total pool
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About this opportunity

The program goal and objectives relevant to this funding opportunity announcement (FOA) are to strengthen the Africa Society for Blood Transfusion’s ability to serve as a regional center of excellence and provider of a standards-based accreditation service to blood services in Africa. SMART objectives related to this project include: • Specific: AfSBT will develop and implement an Africa-wide accreditation system for African blood transfusion services. • Measurable: An increasing number of African blood transfusion services will attain AfSBT accreditation through the three step process. • Appropriate: AfSBT’s step-wise accreditation system will be based on internationally accepted standards, but tailored to operational environments in low-resource African countries. • Realistic: AfSBT is a 10 year old organization with a strong cadre of volunteer technical experts. This project seeks to leverage that volunteer-based experience and expertise to strengthen AfSBT’s Secretariat into a sustainable permanent organization. • Time-bound: The above objectives can realistically be achieved during the five year project period. These activities will also contribute to CDC’s and PEPFAR’s strategic objective to transition bi-lateral activities to local organizations and a diverse, sustainable and, where possible, largely local, source of long-term funding. The Africa Society for Blood Transfusion (AfSBT) was launched approximately 10 years ago to address this challenge through the development and implementation of a "step-wise" accreditation service based on internationally-accepted quality standards that have been adapted to reflect current operational environments commonly found in Africa. The purpose of this FOA is to support the AfSBT, the only African standards and accrediting body, to implement its Africa-wide accreditation program, and to build the organization's capacity to deliver other training and quality management services to member countries in Africa. AfSBT is the only organization globally that has been approved by Africa member states to operate an accreditation system specifically for African blood transfusion services. No other organization maintains Africa-specific standards for blood transfusion services or offers training, pre-accreditation assessments, and formal accreditation assessments based on those standards. African countries currently rely on US or European based accreditation services to validate their domestic quality management systems. However, these non-Africa-based services are typically designed for blood services in industrialized, high-income, countries. As such, African blood services, especially those in resource-limited settings, face substantial challenges in obtaining accreditation. During the last decade, AfSBT has benefited from substantial volunteer contributions from technical experts in several African countries, and counts most countries in the WHO AFRO region (as well as several countries in the WHO EMRO region) as dues-paying members. But a volunteer-based Secretariat has proved unsustainable and inefficient. As the only standards-based organization supporting blood services in Africa, AfSBT is uniquely positioned to benefit from CDC and PEPFAR support to strengthen indigenous capacity to provide accreditation to its members. CDC's Division of Global HIV/AIDS, the primary implementing agency for PEPFAR's blood safety initiative, recognizes AfSBT as a powerful example of the kind of indigenous technical organization PEPFAR seeks to support as part of its long-term transition and sustainability strategies. In addition, accreditation is a core objective of the PEPFAR quality strategy. Unlike North other developed regions of the world, the African continent lacks a diversity of capacity and organizations capable of implementing the standards-based accreditation project proposed by AfSBT.

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Source ID266668
PostedSep 23, 2014

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