Strategies to Link, Engage, and Retain Men with HIV in Care: Implementation Technical Assistance Provider
This grant funds a provider to support, manage, and guide up to eight sites in adapting and implementing interventions that improve HIV care engagement and retention for men, using implementation science and technical assistance.
Funder: Health Resources and Services Administration
Due Dates: July 8, 2026: Full application deadline (electronically submitted applications must be submitted no later than 11:59 p.m. ET on this date)
Funding Amounts: Up to $3,240,000 total for one cooperative agreement over three years; single award; no cost sharing required.
Summary: Funds a single Implementation Technical Assistance Provider to support and scale interventions that link, engage, and retain men with HIV in care using implementation science and subawards to up to 8 sites.
Description
This opportunity supports a single organization to serve as the Implementation Technical Assistance Provider (ITAP) under the Ryan White HIV/AIDS Program (RWHAP) Part F: Special Projects of National Significance. The ITAP will lead, coordinate, and deliver technical assistance to up to eight subaward implementation sites to adapt, implement, and evaluate interventions designed to link, engage, and retain men with HIV who are not consistently engaged in care or face significant barriers to staying in care. The ITAP will work in close collaboration with a separately funded Evaluation Provider (EP), with both roles co-leading the initiative but maintaining distinct responsibilities.
The initiative is grounded in implementation science and aims to produce generalizable, scalable, and sustainable intervention models for engaging men with HIV, ultimately supporting national goals to end the HIV epidemic. The ITAP will also develop user-friendly dissemination materials to facilitate replication and scale-up of effective strategies throughout the RWHAP network.
