The American International Health Alliance (AIHA)
and the United States Agency for International Development (USAID)
Announce a Grants Competition

NIS Health Partnerships Program

Date Issued: February 19, 1999
Closing Date and Time: April 6, 1999, 12:00 Noon (EST)

AIHA and USAID are pleased to announce a grants competition in support of
establishing new partnerships between US health-related institutions and
their counterparts in the New Independent States (NIS) of the former Soviet
Union, as part of the NIS Health Partnerships Program. AIHA is soliciting
applications from qualified US health-related institutions willing to devote
substantial in-kind resources, mainly in the form of human resources
committed on a volunteer basis, to a 3 to 4-year partnership with
counterparts in one of the NIS countries. Under the program, AIHA will award
up to 11 partnerships through this solicitation, in accordance with the
strategic direction of the USAID Missions in the region, in the following
countries: Belarus, Ukraine, Kazakstan, Kyrgyzstan, Turkmenistan, and
Uzbekistan. The majority of these new partnerships will focus on improving
primary care through the development of community-based models that show
meaningful results locally and are replicable nationally. One partnership
will address the development of a health management education program. One
partnership will address the improvement of emergency services and the
development of a national trauma center.

For further information, please see the full-text of the solicitation, which
is available at:

        http://www.aiha.com/english/partners/newpartn/solicit.htm

Questions regarding this solicitation should be directed via e-mail to
[log in to unmask] or via fax at (202) 789-1277, Attention: NISSOLICIT.