Switzerland: Request for Proposal (RFP): WHO estimates for the cascade of care and cure of HBV and HCV infections (2016/HTM/HIV/018)

Description:

WHO is a public international organization, consisting of 194 Member States, and a Specialized Agency of the United Nations with the mandate to act as the directing and coordinating authority on international health work. As such, WHO is dependent on the budgetary and extra-budgetary contributions it receives for the implementation of its activities. Bidders are therefore requested to propose the best and most cost-effective solution to meet WHO requirements, while ensuring a high level of service.

WHO’s Global Hepatitis Programme [GHP] has developed a Global Health Sector Strategy [GHSS] on hepatitis that proposes to consider elimination of viral hepatitis as a public health threat by 2030. A monitoring and evaluation framework has been prepared to monitor the progress in achieving the strategy targets that includes 10 core indicators (http://www.who.int/hepatitis/publications/hep-b-c-monitoring-evaluation/en/ ).

Among these 10 core indicators, three address the cascade of diagnosis, care and treatment /cure for hepatitis B virus [HBV] and hepatitis C virus [HCV] infection:

• Number of people living with HCV and/or HBV diagnosed [C.6]

• Treatment, including treatment coverage for persons with chronic HBV infection [C.7 a] and treatment initiation for persons with chronic HCV infection [C.7 b]

• Viral suppression / cure, including viral suppression for persons with chronic HBV under treatment [C.8 a] and cure for persons with chronic HCV infection treated [C.8 b]

Scope of the work to be conducted:

• The call for proposals is for institutions that already reviewed studies reporting information on the cascade of diagnosis, care and treatment or that have access to meta-data from such reviews. It only request additional / incremental work to generate WHO regional and global estimates.

• The scope of this work does not include the conduct of systematic reviews.

Work to be conducted:

WHO requires the successful bidder, the provider, to produce regional and global estimates for the 2015 value of the C.6, C.7 and C.8 core indicators of the Monitoring and Evaluation Framework for hepatitis B and C (http://www.who.int/hepatitis/publications/hep-b-c-monitoring-evaluation/en/ ). This will include:

• Re-analysis of the meta-database to generate regional and global estimates of the cascade of care for HBV infection • Re-analysis of the meta-database to generate regional and global estimates of the cascade of care/ cure for HCV infection

• Report writing

• Submission to peer review

• Revisions

• Submission of a final report

Output / deliverables:

• Five tables and figures to summarize estimates by WHO regions

• Narrative of max 3,000 words, structured as per the Introduction, Methods, Results and Discussion format, with appendices as required

• Meta-database and unlocked programing codes

Submission of proposals: To respond to this call, interested institutions must send a proposal before 31 August 2016 that would include:

1. The proposed technical methods to generate the estimates
2. At least two CVs for (a) principal investigator(s) and (b) (a) senior supervisor(s).
3. A list of published references documenting the experience of the institution in the field
4. An itemized budget • Email for submissions of proposal: hutiny@who.int (use subject: Bid Ref 2016HTMHIV018)

FOR MORE INFORMATION AND DETAILS, PLEASE REFER TO THE ADVERT ON THE LINK BELOW:

https://www.ungm.org/Public/Notice/48605