OHTN HIV Endgame Funding Program Call

How to Apply: 

OHTN has launched a new call for the HIV Endgame Funding Program.

 

The OHTN will offer two types of award:

  1. Game Changer Awards: investigator-driven awards that will build on the engagement of Ontario’s HIV innovation community to generate game-changing knowledge, and pilot and scale up innovative interventions. This stream includes the Breaking New Ground Award and the Implementation Science Award.
  2. Community Based Project and Participatory Evaluation Awards: support for community-based agencies, their staff, and people living with HIV to undertake projects, needs assessments, quality improvements, and evaluation activities that help develop and modify effective programs, services, and policies or generate data to make the case for additional HIV inquiry relevant to Ontario’s needs.

 

Priorities

Through a strategic planning process and stakeholder consultations, OHTN has identified seven priorities or key learning areas:

  1. Effective PrEP scale-up in Ontario
  2. Population-focused prevention and health promotion
  3. HIV testing
  4. Linkage, adherence, and retention in care
  5. Clinical care standards and capacity
  6. Integration of services
  7. Mental health and well-being of people living with and at risk of HIV (including stigma reduction)

 

In addition, OHTN welcomes applications for project designed to implement and evaluation interventions that:

  • Promote equity, efficiency, and integration of HIV health and social services
  • Mitigate or remove structural barriers and promote equity of access to HIV services
  • Increase uptake of HIV testing and diagnosis, and PrEP
  • Address mental health needs of those with or at risk of HIV

 

Review Process

A diverse OHTN Review Committee will review and appraise every proposal submitted to the Endgame Funding Program. Review criteria are included in the application guidelines.

 

Important Deadlines

Information Session: November 26, 2020 at 12pm EST. Register here.

LOI Application Deadline: December 7, 2020 at 5pm EST

Results of LOI: mid-December 2020

Full Application Deadline: January 18, 2021 at 5pm EST

External Deadline: 
Monday, December 7, 2020
URL: 

http://www.ohtn.on.ca/endgame-funding-program/

Agency: 
Ontario HIV Treatment Network
Funding Source: 
External
Funding Level: 
Research