SOLICITATION NOTICE
R -- Senior Clinical Services and HIV Treatment Advisor
- Notice Date
- 3/27/2018
- Notice Type
- Combined Synopsis/Solicitation
- NAICS
- 812990
— All Other Personal Services
- Contracting Office
- Agency for International Development, Overseas Missions, South Africa USAID-Pretoria, USAID - Southern Africa, Pretoria, Non-U.S., South Africa
- ZIP Code
- 00000
- Solicitation Number
- 72067418R00013
- Archive Date
- 4/23/2018
- Point of Contact
- Caroline S. Sello, Phone: 27124522059
- E-Mail Address
-
ssello@usaid.gov
(ssello@usaid.gov)
- Small Business Set-Aside
- N/A
- Description
- The Kingdom of Lesotho, located in the eastern part of Southern Africa, covers an area of 30,350 km2 and has a population of 1,876,633 million. Largely mountainous, 23 percent of the population lives in urban areas clustered along the flatter north-western borders. The remaining 77 percent live in rural and difficult to access areas. Less than 20 percent of the population has salaried employment and 77 percent of households in Lesotho depend on subsistence agricultural as their main source of food. Employment in Lesotho is limited; 43 percent of the population lives on less than $1.25 per day and the Lesotho workforce depend on migration to the Republic of South Africa for work opportunities such as mining, agriculture, construction, and domestic work. Health indicators are poor; maternal mortality has increased to 1,155 deaths per 100,000 live births and population growth declined to 0.08 percent. The impact of the HIV epidemic has been identified as a major factor in the decline in population growth and is linked to broader health and development challenges for Lesotho. Lesotho’s adult HIV prevalence is amongst the highest in sub-Saharan Africa, estimated at 25.6 percent (LePHIA 2017). HIV incidence is the highest in the world, estimated at 1.47 percent in 15-49 year olds, with annual new infections of 26,000 across all ages. Tuberculosis (TB) and TB co-infection incidence and prevalence rates are also high at 632 and 411 per 100,000, respectively. Of those with TB, 76 percent have HIV co-infection. AIDS-related deaths peaked in 2006 at 22,000 per year but have been slowly declining with the introduction of antiretroviral therapy and are currently estimated at 14,000 per year.
- Web Link
-
FBO.gov Permalink
(https://www.fbo.gov/spg/AID/OM/SOU/72067418R00013/listing.html)
- Place of Performance
- Address: Maseru, Lesotho, South Africa
- Record
- SN04869235-W 20180329/180327232400-6f633c39e69c6a22d17e4181fb4a11dd (fbodaily.com)
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