Kaiser Permanente's national Community Benefit Community-Based HIV Test and Treat Initiative

Kaiser Permanente has announced the national Community Benefit Community-Based HIV Test and Treat Initiative as part of their continuing effort to improve the health and well being of racial and ethnic minorities, and to eliminate racial and ethnic disparities in health care and health outcomes, specifically related to HIV disease. The goals of this initiative support Healthy People 2020, a comprehensive set of disease prevention and health promotion objectives for the nation to achieve over the first decades of the 21st Century (www.healthypeople.gov). A focus of Healthy People 2020 is on the elimination of health disparities and reduction of HIV rates among different segments of the population. The Community-based HIV Test and Treat Initiative also aligns with the United States’ first domestic HIV/AIDS strategy (NHAS), released in 2010.

Program goals and application information are available here. Applications are due no later than by 12pm, May 17, 2013 PST.  [Source: Kaiser Permanente]

Healthy People 2020 Community Innovations Project

This project, administered by John Snow, Inc. (JSI) as part of a contract it has with the Office of Disease Prevention and Health Promotion (ODPHP), will fund non-profit, community-based organizations with budgets less than $750,000 to implement projects that address Healthy People 2020 overarching goals, topic areas and objectives and integrate at least one of the following Healthy People 2020 Community Innovation Project priorities: environmental justice, health equity, and healthy behaviors across all life stages. As many as 170 projects will be given between $5,000 to $10,000 to conduct projects between December 1, 2011 and May 31, 2012.

The deadline for submitting an application in response to this Request for Proposal (RFP) is Friday, August 5, 2011. Click here for more details including the Healthy People 2020 Community Innovations Project RFP.

A Bidders Conference will be held on Monday, June 27, 2011 as follows:

Eligible applicants in Mountain and Pacific time zones:
12:00 p.m. MDT/11:00 a.m. PDT
Please follow this link to register:  https://jsi.webex.com/jsi/j.php?ED=150472232&RG=1&UID=0&RT=MiM2
Dial: 1.877.223.6135; Conference I.D.: 705.32.378

During this one hour conference call and webinar, JSI and ODPHP will describe the Healthy People 2020 initiative, review the Healthy People 2020 Community Innovations Project Request for Proposal (RFP), and address any questions that bidders may have.