Accelerating Program Achievements to Control the Epidemic (APACE) in South Africa | 72067418RFA00001

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The Accelerating Program Achievements to Control the Epidemic (APACE) in South Africa opportunity is a USAID/South Africa (USAID-Pretoria) funding call aimed at strengthening and expanding HIV services to help the country reach and sustain HIV epidemic control. Issued as a discretionary funding opportunity under a Cooperative Agreement (meaning USAID expects to remain substantially involved in technical direction and oversight during implementation), APACE is positioned as an urgent, large-scale effort to speed up progress toward South Africa's national HIV goals during the 2018 to 2023 period.

At its core, APACE is designed to improve and broaden comprehensive HIV care and treatment using "differentiated" approaches. In practical terms, differentiated service delivery typically means tailoring clinical and non-clinical HIV services to the needs of different groups of clients rather than using a single, uniform model for everyone. The program emphasis is on both clinical elements (such as initiating and maintaining antiretroviral therapy, monitoring treatment outcomes, and ensuring quality of care) and non-clinical elements (such as adherence support, community-based services, patient navigation, and other supports that help people stay in care and achieve viral suppression). By strengthening these end-to-end service models, the program intends to accelerate results quickly while also making them durable over time.

The opportunity explicitly ties APACE to South Africa's strategic policy framework, noting alignment with the National Strategic Plan (NSP) 2017-2022 and the global 90-90-90 targets. The 90-90-90 framing reflects a cascade approach to epidemic control: ensuring that most people living with HIV know their status, that most of those diagnosed are on sustained treatment, and that most people on treatment achieve viral suppression. APACE is therefore oriented toward improving performance across this continuum of care, with a clear focus on treatment outcomes and sustained epidemic impact rather than short-term service delivery alone.

Eligibility is restricted to local (South African) organizations as defined in the request for applications, making this a locally limited competition intended to channel leadership and implementation through South African entities. The funding activity category is Health, and the program is listed under CFDA 98.001. The funding opportunity number is 72067418RFA00001, and it was created on 2017-10-27 with an original closing date of 2018-01-15.

Financially, the opportunity indicates an award ceiling of 600,000,000 (as listed in the source data). While the number of expected awards is not specified in the provided excerpt, the ceiling signals a major investment intended to operate at scale and contribute materially to national epidemic control efforts.

• The South Africa USAID-Pretoria in the health sector is offering a public funding opportunity titled "Accelerating Program Achievements to Control the Epidemic (APACE) in South Africa" and is now available to receive applicants.
• Interested and eligible applicants and submit their applications by referencing the CFDA number(s): 98.001.
• This funding opportunity was created on 2017-10-27.
• Applicants must submit their applications by 2018-01-15. (Agency may still review applications by suitable applicants for the remaining/unused allocated funding in 2026.)
• Each selected applicant is eligible to receive up to $600,000,000.00 in funding.
• Eligible applicants include: Others.

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