Subject: AIDSFree Announcement
From: Diana Silimperi <[email-masked]>
To: Diana Silimperi <[email-masked]>
Date: Wed, 23 Jul 2014 23:25:18 +0000

USAID announced the award of the Strengthening High Impact Interventions for an AIDS-Free Generation (AIDSFree) project on Monday in Melbourne as part of a $500 Million investment in reaching an AIDS free
generation.  Abt’s consortium, of which JSI is the prime, was awarded the contract of $250M.  Other partners are: Elizabeth Glaser Pediatric AIDS Foundation (EGPAF), EnCompass, IMA World Health (IMA), The International HIV/AIDS Alliance (The Alliance), Jhpiego,
and Program for Appropriate Technology in Health (PATH). AIDSFree aims to improve the effectiveness of high-impact, evidence-based HIV interventions (e.g., PMTCT, VMMC), and accelerate the speed with which these interventions are brought to scale at country-level.

Abt’s role is to lead the (1) financing, budgeting and costing, (2) private sector; and (3) human resources for health and related country-level activities, and we may also play a supporting role in QA/QI,
knowledge management, behavior change and BCC, community and service capacity-building, development and scaling up of new and emerging innovations, and monitoring and evaluation.  Abt is responsible for providing a Public Private Partnership Advisor, Health
System Strengthening and Health Financing Advisor, an epidemiologist (HAPSAT focused), and a pool of STTA advisors to the project.

John Palen and Sarah Dominis led Abt’s portion of the proposal application process with the great support of (over the Christmas and New Year’s holidays!):  James White, Avril Kaplan, Abigail Donner, Alexandra
Hulme, Rebecca Rishty, Steve Norwood, Ilana Ron, John Osika, Carlos Avila, Martha Benezet, Katherine Brouhard, Cathy Thompson, Kate Green, Kenya Datari, Christina Kramer, Itamar Katz, Jorge Ugaz, Pat Poulton, Pamela Dasher, Nicole Barcikowski, Milly Kayongo,
Ted Hammett, Kelley Ambrose, Sheila O’Dougherty, Caytie Decker, Gael O’Sullivan, and Sara Sulzbach.

Please join me in congratulating the entire team on this exciting new project!

Diana