RFP - From Organizations Wishing to Register as sub-sub-Recipients (SSR) with alliance India for Vihaan – the Global Fund Supported Programme

Organization: Network of Maharashtra By People Living with HIV/AIDS

Apply By: 07th December 2025

Network of Maharashtra by People Living With HIV/AIDS – (NMP+)

REQUEST FOR PROPOSALS FROM ORGANIZATIONS WISHING TO REGISTER AS SUB-SUB RECIPIENTS (SSR) WITH ALLIANCE INDIA FOR VIHAAN – THE GLOBAL FUND SUPPORTED PROGRAMME

Introduction

India HIV/AIDS Alliance (Alliance India) as Principal Recipient (PR) has been awarded the Grant funded by Global Fund to Fight AIDS, Tuberculosis and Malaria (GFATM), for the programme known as Vihaan (which means Dawn’s First Light) care and support programme for People Living with HIV across India. II: Background of the programme:

Background of the programme:

India revised care and support strategies in 2013 under NACP IV and under new strategy, National AIDS Control Organization (NACO) is providing all treatment including treatment for opportunistic infections through Govt. health care facilities and a civil society organization will provide care and support services to all needy PLHIV. India Country Coordination Mechanism (CCM) selected India HIV/AIDS Alliance as Principal Recipient (PR) to implement care and support programme across the country.

The programme is being named as ‘Vihaan’ (Sanskrit word which means dawn’s first light) is providing care and support services to needy PLHIV since June 2013. Till March 2024, the programme has reached to 24,13,000 PLHIV provided with care & support services through 310 care and support centres. The programme is being implemented in close coordination with NACO, SACS and ART centres at national, state and district level respectively.

Alliance India has received the approval from Global Fund for continuation of programme from April 2024 to March 2027. During this period, care and support centres (CSCs) exclusively supported by Global Fund will be functional to cater the service needs of PLHIV enrolled in ART centres across the country.

Network of Maharashtra by People Living with HIV/AIDS (NMP+) is a Sub Recipient for Maharashtra and Goa State and is providing the hand holding support to the 40 CSCs and will be collecting the applications of the interested NGOs/CBOs

Objectives of Vihaan:

Vihaan programme has evolved over a period of time as one of the good models of community-based care and support programme supporting national HIV programme through enhancing the quality of life of PLHIV.

The specific objectives of Vihaan include:

• To accelerate HIV prevention and promote testing through innovative approaches: virtual platforms, use of Artificial Intelligence, Incarcerated & hard-to-reach key populations, index client and Youth
• Eliminate vertical transmission of HIV and Syphilis among HIV positive pregnant women and exposed Infant
• To increase retention of PLHIV on ART through intensified peer-led outreach by tracking
• To increase community-led monitoring and accountability through sustainable community systems.
• To augment viral load testing to improve coverage and to reach the third 95 targets by 2027.

What are Care Support Centres?

Care and support centres (CSCs) are friendly places where PLHIV receive information on care and support, access to a range of health referrals, education and linkages to social welfare schemes and entitlements.

Apart from these, clients will be able to access the services including counselling services, resting, recreational facilities, entertainment etc. The team at the CSCs would also conduct home visits for the registered clients on their convenience and agreed timing to provide information and treatment education, adherence, any health referrals not only to the registered clients, but the family, which would be taken as a unit for information, education and referrals especially to social welfare schemes and entitlements. Building on the lessons learnt from the programmatic experience since inception, the programme will now adopt provision of differentiated care and support services to different categories of clients.

How to Apply

Applicants are required to ensure that soft copy of their applications in Form 1 is received by NMP Plus via email to the id given below by or before 6 pm on 7th December 2025 for the initial screening of applications: career@nmpplus.org

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