Ontario HIV Treatment Network (OHTN) – HIV Endgame Program Call: Incubator Grants

Funder’s website

The funder’s website can be found HERE.

Funding Available

Duration: up to 2 years
Maximum annual funding: $50,000 – $300,000

Opportunity

The HIV Endgame Program supports people and projects (including innovative, discovery-based and investigator-driven-game-changing projects) that have the potential to:

• Meet the needs of populations in Ontario most affected by HIV.
• Drive changes in policy and practice across the HIV prevention, engagement, and care cascade.
• Lead to more integrated health and social services.
• Identify effective ways to address the social determinants that have a negative impact on the health of communities most affected by HIV.
• Contribute to a rapid learning HIV health and social system.

The Incubator Program will support projects that are deemed high-risk, high-reward and that will test, evaluate, and scale up innovative interventions and effective programs and services for the population living with HIV and at risk for HIV in Ontario. The purpose of this grant is support initiatives that will help us meet or exceed 90-90-90 targets across the province. The project must seek to move the needle in one of the seven areas of rapid learning and lead to changes in practice and policy. The project should also aim to enhance a status neutral approach to HIV, with a focus on accessibility, acceptability, and culturally sensitive approaches.

OHTN encourage applications that seek to:

• Drive down the rates of new infections in Ontario.
• Address the current gap in HIV diagnosis by targeting the 15% undiagnosed in Ontario.
• Improve linkage to care by decreasing the time between infection and diagnosis, and between diagnosis and treatment.
• Contribute towards equitable access to treatment and other services and reduce health
  disparities.
• Improve health outcomes and enhance quality of life for all Ontarians with or at risk of HIV.