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.
Eligibility
The OHTN seeks proposals from individuals who:
- Have a documented history of working with people living with HIV, clinicians, community-based organizations, policy makers, and researchers in a collaborative and culturally respectful manner
- Have developed a data and evidence-sharing plan that:
- Meaningfully engages affected communities throughout the project, including decision making, evidence sharing, and implementation of results
- Is solution-focused; seeks to develop, implement, and evaluate interventions, programs, services, treatments, or policies to address the issues that are relevant to the populations most affected by HIV in Ontario
- Will support implementation of a new or improved intervention, program, service, treatment, or policy that will lead to change
- Will contribute to a rapid learning health and social system for HIV in Ontario
- Have a Nominated Principal Applicant who:
- Holds a primary appointment at an appropriate host organization in Ontario. Eligible institutions include university faculties and departments, research institutes and hospitals, and HIV agencies
- Has primary employment and residence in Ontario
Internal Contacts
Potential applicants are encouraged to discuss this funding opportunity with their Faculty Research Facilitator.
Deadlines
| Faculty Deadline | Consult your Faculty Research Facilitator. |
| OVPRI Deadline (Approval Form and Application) | A week before LOI submission (Letter of Intent (LOI)) |
| Submission to Sponsor | First Friday of each month 5:00PM (Letter of Intent (LOI))
As per LOI Notification Letter 5:00PM (Application) |
Submitting Your Application
- Step 1) Submit an internal Carleton Approval Form
Submit an internal Approval Form through our central awards management database CUResearch:
https://ovpri.research.carleton.ca/Romeo.Researcher/Administrator/Default.aspx
For a user’s guide on submitting an Approval Form, click HERE. - Step 2) Submit an external application to the granting agency
Submit an external application to the corresponding grant or award agency. For further details about funding categories, eligibility criteria and deadlines for this opportunity, click HERE.