Organization: Gujarat State Network of People Living with HIV/AIDS (GSNP+)
Apply By: 05th July 2026
REQUEST FOR PROPOSALS FROM ORGANIZATIONS WISHING TO REGISTER AS SUB-SUB RECIPIENTS (SSR) WITH ALLIANCE INDIA FOR SAMAGRA (VIHAAN 2.0) – THE GLOBAL FUND SUPPORTED PROGRAMME
I: 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:
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.
Gujarat State Network of People Living with HIV/AIDS (GSNP+) is a Sub Recipient for Maharashtra and Goa State and is providing the hand holding support to the 41 CSCs and will be collecting the applications of the interested NGOs/CBOs
III: 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.
IV: 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.
CSC: Key features
- Providing services to priority clients. (To be initiated, newly initiated clients, MIS and LFU)
- Community based screening
- ART refilling at CSC
- Linkages to social schemes and entitlements of priority clients.
- TB screening of priority list.
- Family member screening/testing for HIV.
- Services to TB-HIV comorbidity clients, clients on 2nd line & 3rd line ART, clients with less than 200 CD4 /more than 1000 copies of viral load.
- ICTC gap linkage
- Community system strengthening
- Special focus on registered adolescents, KPs and children in CSC.
V: Management of CSCs
Any Non-Govt. Organization (NGO) or Community Based Organization (CBO) who have legal entity, with the appropriate expertise of implementing HIV programmes at district or state level and presence in the district where application has been called for are eligible to apply. Discontinued NGOs/CBOs are not eligible to apply.
The core area of CSC’s work is linking PLHIV into various services. Hence the agency should have excellent rapport with all key stakeholders in the district and proven leverage skills. Therefore, a track record of working successfully with the local PLHIV community/KP groups and proven experience of effective advocacy with SACS/DAPCU or local government for treatment or care of PLHIV will be advantage.
Eligibility Criteria for NGO/CBO Setting Up CSC
- Organisation that has been discontinued are not eligible to apply.
- The agency should be a non-profit organization and legally registered under The Societies Registration Act of 1860 or an equivalent Act of a State; or The Charitable and Religious Act of 1920; or Indian Trusts Act of 1882; or an equivalent Act of a State; or Section 25 C Company ACT
- It should have a clearly defined organizational structure.
- It should have established administrative and management systems.
- It should have sound financial track record with an established financial management system (latest three years audit reports and audited accounts required in case of NGOs and one year report for CBOs).
- It should have a minimum of three years’ experience in managing public health programmes or allied programmes in health.
- Experience in the field of HIV/AIDS, especially in the area of care and support, will be an added benefit.
- The organization should have been working for minimum three years in case of NGOs and one year in case of CBOs and have a good track record in providing services.
- Readiness to make available adequate infrastructure deemed necessary to carry out all the activities planned in CSC.
The RFP is open from: 20th of June 2026
Applicants wishing to respond to this RFP are required to submit their applications in the prescribed format (Form 1) with supporting documents by or before 6 pm on 5th July 2026, by Email on gsnpgujarat@gsnpplus.org, Form 1 is available as Annexure A.
Applications received after the above date and time shall be summarily rejected.
All eligible applications received shall be carefully appraised and assessed, considering all details provided in the prescribed format.
For detailed information, please check the complete version of the RFP attached below.