AIHA/USAID Grant Competition: NIS Health Partnerships Program

The American International Health Alliance (AIHA) and the United States Agency for International Development (USAID) Announce a Grants Competition

Date Issued: February 19, 1999
Closing Date and Time: April 6, 1999, 12:00 Noon (EST)

AIHA and USAID are pleased to announce a grants competition in support of establishing new partnerships between US health-related institutions and their counterparts in the New Independent States (NIS) of the former Soviet Union, as part of the NIS Health Partnerships Program. AIHA is soliciting applications from qualified US health-related institutions willing to devote substantial in-kind resources, mainly in the form of human resources committed on a volunteer basis, to a 3 to 4-year partnership with counterparts in one of the NIS countries. Under the program, AIHA will award up to 11 partnerships through this solicitation, in accordance with the strategic direction of the USAID Missions in the region, in the following countries: Belarus, Ukraine, Kazakstan, Kyrgyzstan, Turkmenistan, and Uzbekistan. The majority of these new partnerships will focus on improving primary care through the development of community-based models that show meaningful results locally and are replicable nationally. One partnership will address the development of a health management education program. One partnership will address the improvement of emergency services and the development of a national trauma center.

For further information, please see the full-text of the solicitation, which is available at:

http://www.aiha.com/english/partners/newpartn/solicit.htm

Questions regarding this solicitation should be directed via e-mail to:
[email protected] ,
or via fax at (202) 789-1277, Attention: NISSOLICIT.

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